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River of Time
Jon Swain
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Description for River of Time
Paperback. Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in "The Killing Fields", lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and how their tumultuous events affected him. He also describes the beauty of the landscape, as well as its violence and corruption. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPL; BGHA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas and coconuts, and the exquisite women, the odours of opium, and the region's other face - that of violence and corruption.
Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas and coconuts, and the exquisite women, the odours of opium, and the region's other face - that of violence and corruption.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749320201
SKU
V9780749320201
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About Jon Swain
Jon Swain left Britain as a teenager. After a brief stint with the French Foreign Legion he became a journalist in Paris, but soon ended up in Vietnam and Cambodia. In five years as a young war reporter Swain lived moments of intensity and passion such as he had never known. He learnt something of life and death in Cambodia ... Read more
Reviews for River of Time
A remarkable heart-breaking book
Gavin Young Jon Swain's powerful and moving book goes further than anything else I have read towards explaining the appeal of Indo-China and its tragic conflicts... A brilliant and unsettling examination of the age-old bonds between death, beauty, violence and the imagination, which came together in Vietnam and nowhere else
J. G. Ballard
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Gavin Young Jon Swain's powerful and moving book goes further than anything else I have read towards explaining the appeal of Indo-China and its tragic conflicts... A brilliant and unsettling examination of the age-old bonds between death, beauty, violence and the imagination, which came together in Vietnam and nowhere else
J. G. Ballard
... Read more