A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
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"one of the best post-war travel books and, in retrospect, the most heart-rending" The Observer a poignant description o...
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- ISBN10 090787133X
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 336
- Año de Edición 2003
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"one of the best post-war travel books and, in retrospect, the most heart-rending" The Observer a poignant description o...
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"one of the best post-war travel books and, in retrospect, the most heart-rending" The Observer
a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy, ranged against the French colonial powers, and the early affects of imported Western materialism - a best-seller when first published, and venerated by all the Saigon-based war correspondents in the '70s - inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American
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