In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries. Finding George Orwell i...(展开全部)

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries. Finding George Orwell i...(展开全部)

As well as leafing through the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, Oliver Tearle also dusts off some of the more neglected items to be found hidden among the bookshelves of the past. You’ll learn about the forgotten Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens, the woman who became the first published poet in America and the eccentric traveller who in...(展开全部)

Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner, and their baby daughter, born enroute, spent one and a half years traveling through northern and eastern Burma, from 1985-87. Throughout their account, they describe, with rare and deep insight, the struggle by northern Burma’s ethnic groups against brutal Burmese army rule, and record the decline and fall of the Communist Party of Burma. During ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 柏提爾．林納Bertil Lintner 瑞典記者、作家與緬甸問題專家，專研亞洲局勢近四十年。曾任《遠東經濟評論》緬甸特派員，目前為《瑞典日報》及丹麥《Politiken雜誌》亞洲特派員，報導與分析作品常見於《紐約時報》、《華爾街日報》及《亞洲時報》網路版。林納在二○○四年關於北韓的傑出報導，讓他獲得亞洲出版人協會獎。此外林納在緬甸、印度東北、寮國及中國雲南區域耕耘近四十年，以深入蹲點報導，爬梳區域安全、政治叛亂、族群衝突與組織犯罪之間盤根錯節的脈絡。 完成本書跋涉穿越緬北的十八個月行程之前，柏提爾就曾花費數月時間，多次採訪緬甸武裝反抗團體。一九八一年的採訪中，他認識了當時為撣邦軍密碼員的森倫士官長。他們在一九八三年結婚，目前住在泰國清邁。 相關著作:《中國的印度戰爭：世界屋脊上的衝突，亞洲兩大區域強權的角力》 譯者簡介 林玉菁 紐約市立大...(展开全部)

Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner, and their baby daughter, born enroute, spent one and a half years traveling through northern and eastern Burma, from 1985-87. Throughout their account, they describe, with rare and deep insight, the struggle by northern Burma’s ethnic groups against brutal Burmese army rule, and record the decline and fall of the Communist Party of Burma. During ...(展开全部)