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| Caldwell, John C: Massage Girl
Book Number: 24396
London, Hale 1970 8vo. Hardcover 173pp. + b/w plates. very good, owner's name on fep. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Massage Girl Caldwell John C thialand asia
Price: $22.00 |
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| Pedrosa, Carmen Navarro: Imelda Marcos
Book Number: 25404
Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1987 8vo hardcover 230pp b/w plates. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Imelda Marcos Pedrosa Carmen Navarro philippines
Price: $15.00 |
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| Allen, Robert: Saigon, south of beyond
Book Number: 25617
North Ryde, N.S.W. Angus & Robertson 1990 8vo softcover 353pp very good.
Keywords: Saigon south of beyond Yne nan Allen Robert diem regime vietnam
Price: $12.00 |
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| Daniel, Ana.: Bali, behind the mask
Book Number: 28012
New York Knopf : distributed by Random House 1981 Square 4to softcover 167pp colour & b/w illus. good, cover creased with chipped edges.
Keywords: Dance Indonesia Bali Island Bali Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs Bali behind the mask Daniel Ana
Price: $22.00 |
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| Howlett, John: The Trial of Andres Bonifacio. the original documents in Tagalog text & English translation
Book Number: 28018
Manila Ateneo de Manila 1963. 4to softcover b/w illus. frontis. good cover edges a little worn.'
Keywords: The Trial of Andres Bonifacio philippines history
Price: $25.00 |
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| Jennings, Christian: Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness
Book Number: 28052
Gollancz 2000 8vo hardcover 350pp, b/w illus. good, wear to bottom edge / good d/w with wear to bottom edge. Amazon.co.uk Review: Christian Jennings is not a man to rest on his laurels. Not content with the rigours of the French Foreign Legion (documented in his first book, A Mouthful of Rocks, he flew to Rwanda in August 1994 with a rucksack of provisions, The Day of the Jackal, and a self-confessed ignorance of the country beyond the knowledge that 850,000 people had just been slaughtered in brutal acts of genocide. Also, he had a television producer on her way who wanted to find the people responsible within the five-day span of her trip. Apart from the miraculous completion of that programme, the other thing to emerge from this immersion into the landscape of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, was a fascination with Central Africa that saw Jennings return again and again. He was to report for Sunday Telegraph and Reuters in Rwanda, its sibling-in-horror Burundi, and the former Zaire with fearful bravery, but in the impressive Across the Red River he navigates the territory between reportage and memoir. Cleverly matching his learning curve to the reader's, he moves from his virtual ignorance of Rwanda and its mesh of tragedy to a deeper understanding of the weave and durability of that net, achieved with a flowing and refreshing candour. If there are two lines of war journalism, with writers such as Michael Ignatieff providing a more intellectual overview from the hills, Christian Jennings is on the frontline with souls such as Maggie O'Kane, Eve-Ann Prentice and Anthony Loyd. As with the latter's My War Gone By, I Miss It So, Jennings is able to unbridle his sense of self to stirring effect and show the mundane tedium as well as the brutal tension of reporting from, and surviving in, war. Occasionally angry, more often darkly funny, his book proves an unsettling yet riveting critique of the unimaginable effects of genocide, those who feed off its corpse and the few, like Jennings, who live to open our eyes. --David Vincent nn Book Descriptionn A devastating account of the Central African nightmare, in the tradition of Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English and We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Keywords: Society Politics Philosophy History Across the Red River Rwanda Burundi and the Heart of Darkness Jennings Christian
Price: $18.00 |
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| Roeder, O. G.: The Smiling General: President Soeharto of Indonesia
Book Number: 28577
Djakarta: Gunung Agung 1970 8vo. hardcover, laminated boards. 290pp. b/w illus. very good, owner''s inscription on fep.' ' '
Keywords: The Smiling General: President Soeharto of Indonesia
Price: $18.00 |
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| Dan, Nguyen Trieu: A Vietnamese Chronicle. Twelve Generations on the Banks of the Hat River
Book Number: 28938
McFarland & Company, Inc. 1991 Large 8vo. red cloth hardcover. 390pp. index. very good+.
Keywords: Twelve Generations on the Banks of the Hat River Vietnamese Chronicle.
Price: $75.00 |
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| Riboud, Marc: Face of North Vietnam
Book Number: 29158
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, n.d. 4to softcover 121 b/w photos. fair, water damage to bottom edge, mainly on text pages at rear. most plates very good. Scarce.
Keywords: Face of North Vietnam Riboud Marc war military photography
Price: $45.00 |
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| Beg, Muhammad Abdul Jabbar.: Historic cities of Asia : an introduction to Asian cities from antiquity to pre-modern times
Book Number: 29832
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Percetakan Ban Huat Seng 1986 8vo softcover 320pp index, b/w illus. very good. Includes bibliographies.
Keywords: Cities and towns Asia History City planning Asia History Asia Civilization Beg Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Historic cities of Asia an introduction to Asian cities from antiquity to pre modern times Beg Muhammad Abdul Jabbar
Price: $15.00 |
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