| A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam Contributor(s): Lewis, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 090787133X ISBN-13: 9780907871330 Publisher: Eland Publishing OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Asia - Southeast |
| Dewey: 915.9 |
| LCCN: 2004445785 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.26" W x 8.52" (0.94 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American. Norman Lewis traveled in Indo-China during the precarious last years of the French colonial regime. Much of the charm and grandeur of the ancient native civilizations survived until the devastation of the Vietnam War. Lewis could still meet a King of Cambodia and an Emperor of Vietnam; in the hills he could stay in the spectacular longhouses of the highlanders; on the plains he could be enchanted by a people whom he found "gentle, tolerant and dedicated to the pleasures and satisfactions of a discriminating kind." |