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"a simple blueprint for Utopia" - the best travel book on Burma since World War II - despite travelling at a time of massive internal insecurity, Norman Lewis still found the eternal Burma, where pagodas are the only punctuation on the horizon and strangers are treated with an overwhelming friendliness…
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Among the 20th century’s finest travel writers, Norman Lewis visited Burma in the early 1950s. ‘Golden Earth’ is a bittersweet portrait of the then-optimistic, now-lost land – before communist incursions and military dictatorship shattered the dream.
From Rory's list on The best books about Myanmar from someone who has traveled throughout it.
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