UNDER THE DRAGON: TRAVELS IN A BETRAYED LAND
Language: English
Published by Harper Collins [HarperCollins], London, 1998
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1" on the publisher's copyright page: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Illustrated with a black and white line map of Burma and surrounding countries to the fore. ***Very good in green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Tail of spine bumped. Pages clean. No foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £16.99 net. No tears. Spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Rear and front panels of dustwrapper bright. 242mm x 162mm. 224 pages plus one-page acknowledgments to rear. ***'For ten years the memory of a chance visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean. Ten years ago its people rose up against their military government. The unarmed demonstrators were cut down, leaving more than five thousand dead. ***In Under The Dragon, MacLean returns to the betrayed land, travelling from a decaying Rangoon to the heart of the golden triangle, meeting the victims and perpetrators of the uprising. He rides with a hill tribe warlord, shares tea with a government censor and is trapped into a karaoke evening with a group of singing Chinese businessmen. He learns about the economics of the heroin trade and the tragedy of child prostitution. He meets the most courageous and principled woman of our age, Aung San Suu Kyi, imprisoned leader of the democratic opposition party. And on his journey, he unravels a paradox of selfless generosity and sinister greed in a country stitched together by love and fear.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…
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- Title
- UNDER THE DRAGON: TRAVELS IN A BETRAYED LAND
- Author
- Rory MacLean
- Publisher
- Harper Collins [HarperCollins], London
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0002570130
- ISBN 13
- 9780002570138
- Edition
- First Edition
- Printing
- First Impression
- Seller catalogs
- First Editions, Travel & Exploration
A brilliant, tender evocation of contemporary Burma from the award-winning author of Stalin’s Nose and The Oatmeal Ark.
‘One of the most original and extraordinary travel books for years’ was how Alexander Frater described The Oatmeal Ark in the Observer, and now here is a new book from Rory MacLean. In this marvellous book this extraordinary writer expresses the pain of Burma with great tenderness, using novelistic techniques to weave together the patient endurance of its stricken inhabitants, together with their fragility and immense charm. Through his intense studies of the lives of the individual Burmese he encounters he makes us feel the weight of the regime under which they labour, from the girls who work on the building-sites under appallingly exploitative conditions to the drunken pirates who profit from the chaos.
Not only that, but Burma is surely a country of great interest here, being a part of the Eastern Empire about which the British are so nostalgic; and being such a lovely, fragile country under the iron hand of an oppressive military regime, the opposition led by the determined, tiny figure of Aung San Suu Kyi, it has a compelling quality about it that outweighs either Eastern Europe or Canada. Rory MacLean continues to be one of the most exciting and – in literary terms – adventurous of modern travel writers.
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About the Author
Rory MacLean trained as a screenwriter.
Apart from winning the Yorkshire Post Best First Book Award, he is also the winner of the Independent Travel Writing Award. He is married and lives in Dorset.
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