Gecko Tails A Journey Through Cambodia
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Carol Livingstone
- Engels
- Hardcover
- 9780297815303
- 01 december 1996
- 262 pagina's
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After almost 25 years of war and destruction, UN-sponsored elections brought democracy and thirty thousand foreigners to Cambodia. English photographers, Thai racketeers, Filipina bar girls, American missionaries, Irish journalists, Australian travellers and military men descended on the country best known for the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. The politics could be deadly, but the booze was plentiful, the marijuana cheap, and Cambodians friendly and yearning for peace. But when the UN left, the Khmer Rouge remained. Slowly the fears that circumscribe Cambodian lives crept into the foreigners' days. When friends were mysteriously kidnapped, the party ended in ways no one had ever expected.
The first travel book devoted solely to Cambodia in forty years, Gecko Tails is an hilarious yet moving account of the supposedly glamorous world of the foreign correspondent. In the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson and P.J. O'Rourke, Carol Livingston captures the comedy of chasing the news for a living and shows a keen eye for situations weird and quirky. She tells with sensitivity many colourful stories of those Cambodians who never make the headlines but merely suffer through them, and with political insight unravels the complicated and tragic recent past of this enigmatic land.
The first travel book devoted solely to Cambodia in forty years, Gecko Tails is an hilarious yet moving account of the supposedly glamorous world of the foreign correspondent. In the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson and P.J. O'Rourke, Carol Livingston captures the comedy of chasing the news for a living and shows a keen eye for situations weird and quirky. She tells with sensitivity many colourful stories of those Cambodians who never make the headlines but merely suffer through them, and with political insight unravels the complicated and tragic recent past of this enigmatic land.
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