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A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by Lewis Norman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel
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, rang ...Show more
A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in Eastern India: Bihar and Orissa by Norman Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Norman Lewis avoids the easy pleasures of travelling through the hill-forts of Rajasthan, visiting palace hotels and the Taj Mahal. Instead his travels in India begin in the impoverished, overpopulated and corrupt state of Bihar - the scene of a brutal caste war between the untouchables and higher-caste ...Show more
An Empire of the East: Three Journeys into Indonesia by Norman Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when in 1991 he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia: into the extreme western edge of Sumatra, into East Timor and Irian Jaya. He never drops his guard, reporting only on what he can observe, and using his ...Show more
Golden Earth: Travels in Burma by Norman Lewis
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel
"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 ...Show more
Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
$29.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Norman Lewis arrived in war-torn Naples as an intelligence officer in 1944. The starving population has devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium, respectable women had been driven to prostitution and the black market was king. Lewis found little to admire in his fellow soldiers, but gained sustena ...Show more
Naples '44 A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis
$31.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The most popular of Lewis’s twenty-seven books, Naples ’ ...Show more
THE HONOURED SOCIETY THE SICILIAN MAFIA OBSERVED by NORMAN LEWIS
$31.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Norman Lewis is felt by many to be England's finest living travel writer. He has written a dozen travel books and many novels. Here he brilliantly dissects the Mafia, past and present, combining history, sociology, suspense, horror, and superb travel writing. Originally published in 1964, Lewis describe ...Show more
The Missionaries by Norman Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In "The Missionaries", Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.
Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
"Voices of the Old Sea" is Lewis' masterly description of the Costa Brava on the cusp of tourist development in the 1950s, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and mad ...Show more
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