LAND OF A THOUSAND EYES Peter Olszewski - The subtle pleasures of everyday life in Myanmar

A very rare Burma travel memoir by an amazing author. This book is $US80+ on Amazon at the time of listing.

This is a used travel book in good condition: shows mild reading wear to edges and corners; has been read a few times; pages are clean though tanning with age and a couple of minor marks; no pen marks, tears, missing pages. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: A trio of colourfully dressed women tottered and teetered delicately through the water, holding hands, laughing. They were jewels in a sea of shit, standing out against the muddied monochrome of the monsoon's detritus, and they represented the admirable qualities of the Myanmar that I had come to love: the ability not only to make do, but to giggle and pursue life with joie de vivre, despite the deprivations dished out by the elements or by the military masters.'

As a former rock magazine editor, editor of Australian Playboy, creator of Nation Review's cult hero JJ McRoach, official Australian minder' to Dr Hunter S Thompson and leader of the Australian Marijuana Party, Peter Olszewski has lived an interesting and varied life. But all this seemed ordinary compared to the year or so he spent in Yangon training journalists for the main English-language newspaper, the Myanmar Times. Myanmar is a country known mostly for its repressive military regime, so the exciting and vivid world he found there was not the one he expected. He fell in love with the country, the people and one woman in particular.

Land of a Thousand Eyes is a rare glimpse into one of the world's most secretive and isolated countries.

Book Details

Code: SKU972

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 253

Published: 2005 by Sue Hines\Allen & Unwin, Australia

ISBN: 1741145074

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Price: AUD $35.00

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