Vivid Air: Travels to a Further Shorebr Donwload Here Vivid Air is a memoir of the adventurous life of an Australian who encountered her American husband on a slow boat to Singapore. Meeting again as graduate students in London, they married and sailed first to the South Seas for fieldwork, then to a world now gone - a world of Imperial power and pageantry that once existed in Laos, Pakistan, Kathmandu, India, and the Philippines. Each chapter reveals the pleasures and risks of living in exotic cultures from encountering the fascinating characters who were a part of that era - to facing the political upsets that accompanied a rapidly changing Asia.