Under the Dragon A Journey through Burma

by MacLean, Rory; Dalrymple, William

• ISBN13: 9781845116224
• ISBN10: 1845116224
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Summary

The memory of a brief visit to Burma had haunted Rory MacLean for years. A decade after the violent suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives and all hopes for democracy, he seized the chance to return. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the Golden Triangle, he hears the stories of ordinary people struggling to survive under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in the world. Under the Dragon is a portrayal of contemporary Burma, a country that is shot through with desperation and fear, but also blessed'”even in the darkest places'”with beauty and courage.

Author Biography

Rory MacLean's books, including best-sellers Stalin's Nose and Under the Dragon, have challenged and invigorated travel writing, and -- according to the late John Fowles -- are among works that 'marvellously explain why literature still lives'. He has won the Yorkshire Post Best First Work prize and an Arts Council Writers' Award, was twice shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Prize and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4. Born and educated in Canada, he lives with his family in Dorset.

Table of Contents

Preface by William Dalrymple * A Note on Naming * In Every Sense * Love in a Hot Climate * Ties of the Heart * Unpicking the Weave * Heart Strings * Within, Without * The Long & Winding Road * Bound to Love * Stitch and Pair * Acknowledgements