Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden - Tim Page cover

Tim Page

Follows Page's odyssey - 20 years after the liberation of Vietnam - through the land that dominated his life as a war photographer. His job used to be to record the horror, now he can tell of the country's supreme beauty, and mourn the agony of the killing fields.

The Mekong

Milton Osborne

The Mekong is one of the world's great rivers, and by far the largest in Southeast Asia. Empires have risen and fallen in the lands through which the Mekong flows and it has been linked to remarkable adventure and exploration as well as war and massacre. Now that Indochina is at peace, new dangers threaten the river's future.

Colloquial Cambodian

David Smyth

A guide to contemporary Cambodian with easy-to-follow lessons. The book contains an English-Cambodian and Cambodian-English glossary.

Culture Shock! Vietnam

Claire Ellis

A look at the customs, etiquette, culture and traditions of Vietnam for those visiting the country. A new title from the CULTURE SHOCK! series.

Patpong

Nick Nostitz (Photographer)

Not so much "Around the World in 80 Lays" more a jaw-dropping insight into a round-the-clock business culture where anything is possible and where all major credit cards are accepted. Purporting to be more than just a voyeur's wet dream, this is a portrait of an extraordinary way of life, a study of people and places handled with sensitivity that aims to add to the sexploitation debate. There may be a recherche allure to the hookers turning tricks in go-go bars and the weird twilight world of the transexuals, but they are just bit-part players in a greater drama - a shifting world of illusion and reality, captured by the camera.

Ramayana

Krishna Dharma

This is a novelisation of the classic. It contains all the essential narrative of the original Sanskrit poem, but written in a contemporary style. Whilst adhering closely to the original, I have tried to make it as readable as possible, using the techniques of character development and dramatisation to draw the reader into the action. By weaving in other spiritual commentaries on this sacred text, I have also tried to offer the reader the benefit of the wisdom of India's seers and sages. As I am sure you will discover when your read the book, that wisdom is as relevant in today's stressful world as it was thousands of years ago, when it was first written.

The author, Krishna Dharma

Hello my big honey: Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews

Dave Walker (Compiler), Richard S. Ehrlich (Compiler)

TIME magazine hailed its interviews, documentation and investigative journalism as "...an intimate portrait..." of Bangkok's West-meets-East sex industry and added, "Does love conquer poverty, cultural barriers and the fear of AIDS? Sometimes..." Far Eastern Economic Review magazine said it uncovered a "Freudian whirlpool of sexual fantasies and frustration, of damaged egos and haunting super-egos, of dreams of pure love and acts of cold calculation, and a milieu of cross-cultural mayhem." The newest Lonely Planet Guide to Thailand, and the newest Lonely Planet Guide to Bangkok, both recommend this book in their "Culture and Society" section.

Huy and Vinh's Day

Jim Holmes

This series of photographic information books concentrates on the daily lives and experiences of children in different countries around the world. Each book focuses on a particular child's day: from waking up, through breakfast, going to school, learning, travelling home, playing and getting ready for bed. Huy and Vinh are twins.

They start their day with breakfast at the street stall outside the school gates. Lessons start early in Danang, but they are already looking forward to later when they plan crab fishing at the beach and a trip to the local ice-cream shop.

Vietnam: The Culture

Bobbie Kalman

A title from the LANDS, PEOPLES AND CULTURES series which looks at the inhabitants of Vietnam. Introduces their families, homes, education, language and food, with colour photographs providing an insight into the lives of small highland tribes and ethnic Chinese.

Shadows and Wind

Robert Templer

Images of the Vietnam War have proved to be among the most enduring of this century - the naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, bodies lying in the ditches of My Lai. These images and the subsequent myths that have surrounded Vietnam have stifled changes in the way it is seen. For many Vietnam remains a war, not a country. SHADOWS AND WIND sets the record right and underlines the fact that life in Vietnam did not end when the helicopters left.

The theme of SHADOWS AND WIND will be the Vietnamese identity, how it has re-emerged in recent years not as a violent force but one that has sustained a country and more importantly sustained individuals. Chapters cover a broad series of topics: literature, history art and architecture, politics, religion, food, the foreign perception of Vietnam, the Vietnamese perception of foreigners, an emerging popular culture that delights in beauty contests and pompadoured magicians, the Vietnamese overseas and their role in their home country, propaganda and government control and the reaction to that, the lingering mythology of the war and the changing Vietnamese perception of the conflict.

Understanding Vietnam

Neil L. Jamieson

The American experience in Vietnam divided the US as a nation. However, Americans' understanding of the war remains superficial because they have never grasped the passionate commitment of the Vietnamese and their own competing visions of the what Vietnam was and what it might become. This text argues that to understand the Vietnam War, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture and their ways of looking at the world. The author spent many years living and working in Vietnam. Winner of the 1994 American Library Association's Outstanding Academic Book Award.

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