Among Insurgents.
by TUCKER, SHELBY
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0007127057
- ISBN 13
- 9780007127054
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About This Item
London.: Flamingo. 2001.. Colour photographs and maps, 386pp, index, paperback, from the library of Dr Andrew Selth with his name and chop on the front free endpaper, remainder mark lower edge, very good paperback copy. "Ten years ago, at the age of 53, Shelby Tucker set out to cross Burma on foot from China to India when land access to Burma was forbidden. Tucker had a rucksack, a diary and some inaccurate maps. He recruited a 6ft 4in Swede, Mats, whom he had met on the train to Beijing.
Near the beginning of their walk through the jungle they encountered a group of naked boys bathing - they realised too late that their Chinese Army uniforms were on the banks. With typical sangfroid, Tucker leapt in to join them, shouting incomprehensible English greetings. Before long they were in the hands of the Kachin Independence Army and managed to survive many near misses with the Burmese Army. Despite pain and constant danger, Tucker recorded each day the vivid beauty of the country, and the courtesy and hospitality of the Kachins (the most important of Burma's hidden colonies, about whom very little has been written)." From the review in the Daily Telegraph by Maggie Gee. .
Near the beginning of their walk through the jungle they encountered a group of naked boys bathing - they realised too late that their Chinese Army uniforms were on the banks. With typical sangfroid, Tucker leapt in to join them, shouting incomprehensible English greetings. Before long they were in the hands of the Kachin Independence Army and managed to survive many near misses with the Burmese Army. Despite pain and constant danger, Tucker recorded each day the vivid beauty of the country, and the courtesy and hospitality of the Kachins (the most important of Burma's hidden colonies, about whom very little has been written)." From the review in the Daily Telegraph by Maggie Gee. .
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- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 213493
- Title
- Among Insurgents.
- Author
- TUCKER, SHELBY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007127057
- ISBN 13
- 9780007127054
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 2001.
- Keywords
- Burma, Southeast Asia, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books
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