Land Of Jade: A Journey From India Through Northern Burma To China

A Journey from India Through Northern Burma to China

Omschrijving

Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner, and their baby daughter, born enroute, spent one and a half years traveling through northern and eastern Burma, from 1985-87. Throughout their account, they describe, with rare and deep insight, the struggle by northern Burma's ethnic groups against brutal Burmese army rule, and record the decline and fall of the Communist Part of Burma. During their incredibly arduous 2,275 kilometre trek, mostly on foot and at times in great danger, they recorded the history of a forgotten 40-year war, an account which otherwise would never have been committed to paper in such rich detail. Land of Jade further provides poignant descriptions of the efforts of simple ethnic tribes-people to forge lives amid the larger struggles of political antagonists, drug lords, foreign interlopers and assorted other opportunists-a situation that remains painfully relevant to many in diverse locations to the present day.
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Schrijver
Bertil Lintner
Titel
Land Of Jade: A Journey From India Through Northern Burma To China
Uitgever
Orchid Press Publishing Limited
Jaar
2011
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
456
Gewicht
612 gr
EAN
9789745241398
Afmetingen
222 x 133 x 32 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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