Description
Product ID: | 9780749320201 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | River of Time |
Authors: | Author: Jon Swain |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Classic travel writing, Vietnam War, Marxism & Communism, Classic travel writing, Cambodia, Vietnam, c 1970 to c 1980 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam''s film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas and coconuts, and the exquisite women, the odours of opium, and the region''s other face - that of violence and corruption. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1996-05-13 |