Read "I Was a Potato Oligarch Travels and Travails in the New Russia" by John Mole available from Rakuten Kobo. In a charming saga of sun, sea, sand - and cement - John Mole tells of the back-breaking but joyous labours of fixing up Brand: Nicholas Brealey. · I Was a Potato Oligarch ebook mid; Travels and Travails in the New Russia By John Mole. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Biography Autobiography Travel Nonfiction. Search for a digital library with this title. Search by city, ZIP. · From the best-selling author of It's All Greek to Me! comes a wild tale of life and business in the brave new Russia. John Mole went to seek his fortune in the New Russia revolution with his Big Idea of setting up British baked potato restaurants to rival McDonald's and Pizza Hut, and came back with the rights for a revolutionary biotechnology for cleaning air pollution.
John Mole has been at home in Greece for thirty years. "Like Odysseus making his legendary way home to his birthplace Ithaca, the island of Evia was the goal of my life's journey. It was better than Birmingham." He has had a varied international career, from banking in the USA and Athens to jacket potato restaurants in Russia. He is also the author of the best-selling travel narrative It's All Greek to Me! and his latest book, I Was A Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia. John can be contacted by email at mym@www.doorway.ru or through his website www.doorway.ru Find many great new used options and get the best deals for I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia by John Mole (Paperback, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products!
John Mole's book is frequently amusing but after a while becomes too relentlessly jokey. His attempt to introduce the Jacket Potato outlet to Russia reveals the unrelenting ability of the state machine to slow down, complicate and often defeat the best entrepreneurial instincts. Thus far so interesting and entertaining. I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels Travails in the New Russia avg rating — ratings — published — 9 editions Want to Read saving. From the bestselling author of It s All Greek to Me! and from a traveller who likes to get his hands as well as his boots dirty, this is an eye-wateringly funny true story of his travels and travails in the New Russia Sometimes sinister, often hilarious and always entertaining, I Was A Potato Oligarch is a Russian feast from caviar to samovar The Soviet Union has disappeared along with people s nationality, currency, jobs, salaries, pensions, politics.
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