Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in Upper, Middle and Lower Laos (Exploring Asia) [Idioma Inglés]: 2 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8776942473 ISBN 13: 9788776942472

Verlag: NIAS Press, 2019

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The appeal of the book is probably the irrepressible Raquez himself. Laotian Pages is the somewhat uncategorizable tale of that trip. --Asian Review of Books

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Laos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ancient pastoral existence and the modern machine age. Alfred Raquez's Laotian Pages vividly describes his exploration of the diverse kingdoms of Laos at the turn of the last century with the same Parisian verve and ironic turn of mind that he brought to his first travel book, In the Land of Pagodas. Raquez's keen eye and sensitivity to the exotic in both nature and human culture, combined with a mastery of the genre and his hallmark conversational style, transport the reader to the largely unexplored frontier of fin-de-siecle Indochina. Long known only to specialists on the history and ethnography of the region, this new work presents a scholarly translation into English together with Raquez's original photographs that will finally allow a wide audience to experience the joys and hardships of travel in a land that is both timeless and forever changing. In addition, a wide-ranging introduction and extensive footnotes provide historical context and `then-and-now' perspectives on the cultures and landscape that have undergone massive change in the past century. In the Land of Pagodas, a scholarly translation by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux of Alfred Raquez's book of travels through China in 1899, was published in 2017 by NIAS Press.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: NIAS Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 8776942473
• ISBN 13: 9788776942472
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 590