Description
| Product ID: | 9780907871330 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | ES |
| Title: | A Dragon Apparent |
| Subtitle: | Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam |
| Authors: | Author: Norman Lewis |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 |
| Imprint Name: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-08-29 |
