Under the Dragon

A Journey Through Burma

Rory MacLean (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2012
Barbara Ward & Associates (Verlag)
978-1-84511-622-4 (ISBN)

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The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent suppression of an unarmed national uprising, he seized the chance to return. This is a portrayal of contemporary Burma, a country that is shot through with desperation and fear, but also blessed with beauty and courage.

The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives and all hopes for democracy, he seized the chance to return. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the Golden Triangle, he hears stories of ordinary people struggling to survive under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in the world and meets Aung San Suu Kyi, perhaps the most courageous woman of our time and the embodiment of all Burma's hope. On his journey MacLean exposes the tragedy of a hundred betrayals. "Under the Dragon" is a perceptive and heartbreaking portrayal of contemporary Burma, a country that is shot through with desperation and fear, but also blessed - even in the darkest places - with beauty and courage.

Rory MacLean's books, including best-sellers Stalin's Nose and Under the Dragon, have challenged and invigorated travel writing, and -- according to the late John Fowles -- are among works that 'marvellously explain why literature still lives'. He has won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work prize and an Arts Council Writers' Award, was twice shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Prize and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary award. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4. Born and educated in Canada, he lives with his family in Dorset. 'Rory MacLean is one of the most strikingly original and talented travel writers of our generation.' author Katie Hickman.

A Note on Naming
Acknowledgements
Preface by William Dalrymple

1 In Every Sense
2 Love in a Hot Climate
3 Ties of the Heart
4 Unpicking the Weave
5 Heart Strings
6 Within, Without
7 The Long and Winding Road
8 Bound to Love
9 Stitch and Pair

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.2012
Zusatzinfo	1 map
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	248 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	1-84511-622-4 / 1845116224
ISBN-13	978-1-84511-622-4 / 9781845116224
Zustand	Neuware