Golden Earth Travels in Burma
Lewis, Norman.
Golden Earth Travels in Burma /Norman Lewis. - London : Jonathan Cape , 1952. - 294p.
"a simple blueprint for Utopia" - the best travel book on Burma since World War II - despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation on the horizon and strangers are treated with an overwhelming friendliness - an overnight best-seller when first published - revisits the tragic Burma road, treked by so many refugees fleeing Burma before the Japanese advance in 1942
9780907871385
Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar
General Geography
Travel
Travels and voyages
959.1 LEW
Golden Earth Travels in Burma /Norman Lewis. - London : Jonathan Cape , 1952. - 294p.
"a simple blueprint for Utopia" - the best travel book on Burma since World War II - despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation on the horizon and strangers are treated with an overwhelming friendliness - an overnight best-seller when first published - revisits the tragic Burma road, treked by so many refugees fleeing Burma before the Japanese advance in 1942
9780907871385
Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar
General Geography
Travel
Travels and voyages
959.1 LEW
