A Dragon Apparent : Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Author: Norman Lewis

Literary essays

Published on 29 August 2003 by Eland Publishing Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages
216 x 141 x 21mm | 422g

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