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LAND OF JADE: A JOURNEY FROM INDIA THROUGH NORTHERN BURMA TO CHINA
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| By: |
Bertil Lintner |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£27.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9745241393 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789745241398 |
| Publisher: |
ORCHID PRESS PUBLISHING LIMITED |
| Pub. date: |
20 January, 2012 |
| Pages: |
456 |
| Description: |
Gripping record of a now legendary odyssey through northern Burma by reporter Bertil Lintner and family, updated by the author and newly indexed. |
| Synopsis: |
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. Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner, and their baby daughter, born en route, spent one and a half years travelling 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 |
| Illustrations: |
1 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Publication: |
Thailand |
| Imprint: |
Orchid Press Publishing Limited |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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