Explore Cultures of the World

Traveler · Photojournalist · Author

“Most travel, & certainly the rewarding kind , involves the kindness of strangers, putting yourself in the hands of people you don?t know and trusting them with your life. The risky suspension of disbelief is often an experience freighted with anxiety. But what are the alternatives? Often, there are none?”
Paul Theroux

Jackie Chase

Jackie Chase travels the world meeting people from exotic cultures reaching for new challenges along the way. Jackie is more of a writer who travels versus a travel writer, sharing secrets from unique people whose lives help us all in the way we look at the world.

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Latest Release – Broken Wing

The goose who wanted to be included

Broken Wing tells the delightful story of how a goose found happiness. Because Broken Wing was not perfect, all the wildlife on his lake home pecked at him causing him to always be alone. One day something wonderful happened which changed his whole life. The beautiful photographs bring the story to life as they help show the life of a goose. Broken Wing’s physical problem is explained at the end of the book.

Burma where smiles punctuate tattooed faces

  The donut holes burned my fingers. The oily funnel-shaped paper wrapper slipped to the ground, freeing the fried dough to roll under the market-woman’s feet. With an ear-to-ear smile, she prepared another paper cone of...

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Walking the airport runway?

Walking the airport runway?

. The Bathhouse Situated on the south side of the Rock there is a Grade 2 listed building that used to be Gibraltar’s Bathhouse.  It never contained an actual swimming pool but was a spacious portal to a strip of beach where people went to sit on the sand, swim and...

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"]    Paddling the trickle of a stream, swallowing diesel fumes, one realizes the vastness of this great world. The maze of floating tin shacks still out of focus, hum with activity causing ripples to rock the canoe. Open arms greet with plates of dried fish covered...

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Jackie Chase

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Jackie's books can be purchased from Adventure Travel Press. The books are available in eBook, full color paperback, and B&W paperback value editions. The eBooks and full-color paperback editions are also available at Amazon.