Product Description

a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy, ranged against the French colonial powers, and the early affects of imported Western materialism - a best-seller when first published, and venerated by all the Saigon-based war correspondents in the '70s - inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102496 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
"one of the best post-war travel books and, in retrospect, the most heart-rending" The Observer

Cyril Connolly, Sunday Times
Mr Lewis can make even a lorry interesting.

Lucretia Stewart, Sunday Times
The main qualities of Lewis's writing are simplicity, clarity, curiosity, confidence, humanity, humour and courage. It is an enviable list.