Golden Earth
Travels in Burma
Published on 29. August 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-907871-38-5 (ISBN)
Description
"a simple blueprint for Utopia" - the best travel book on Burma since World War II - despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation on the horizon and strangers are treated with an overwhelming friendliness - an overnight best-seller when first published - revisits the tragic Burma road, treked by so many refugees fleeing Burma before the Japanese advance in 1942
Reviews / Votes
"A wonderfully vivid book" Daily TelegraphMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-907871-38-5 (9780907871385)
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Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
12/2011
Eland Publishing
€10.00
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Previous edition
Book
12/1983
Eland Publishing Ltd
€31.15
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Person
Norman Lewis is England's finest, living travel writer. He has written a dozen travel books, including such masterpieces as Naples'44, The Honoured Society and A Dragon Apparent. He has also written thirteen novels. Lewis regards his life's major achievement to be the reaction to an article written by him entitled Genocide in Brazil, published in 1968. This led to a change in Brazilian law relating to the treatment of Indians, and to the formation of Survival International, which campaigns for the rights of indigenous peoples.