- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List; 2Rev Ed edition (1 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 086358411X
- ISBN-13: 978-0863584114
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,296,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Western media has shown Burma to have a cruel regime brutally oppressing its people and imprisoning its elected representatives. Schramm-Evans relates stories of modern-day Burma including back-breaking work on the roads, tales of were-tigers, spirits and flying monks from her encounters with SLORC military, teachers, guides, journalists and shamans astrologers, forced labourers and foreign residents.
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Burma – renamed Myanmar by the governing military junta in 1989 – has recently begun a huge campaign to attract tourists. ‘Visit Myanmar Year 1996’ has involved a massive building programme with 5-star hotels being thrown up at a great rate, often on forced labour. But in the West, the current image of Burma is not what the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) hoped for. Western media has shown a cruel regime brutally oppressing its people and imprisoning its elected representatives, including Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
On this, her second visit to Burma, Zoë Schramm-Evans travelled from Mergui in the far south, to Myitkyina in the north encountering SLORC military, members of the National League for Democracy, teachers, guides, journalists and shamans, astrologers, forced labourers and foreign residents. Stories of modern day Burma include accounts of back-breaking work on the roads, tales of were-tigers, spirits and flying monks. In this country of breathtaking beauty, Zoë Schramm-Evans found hospitality and fear, kindness and secret anger, a dark land of complex extremes.
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A good read on travels in Burma
31 Dec 2003
Format:Paperback
This will be a good read for someone interested in Burma and travelling in Burma. The author includes good and well-researched background and history of some of the places and sites. Her account of her interaction with the people she met is particularly fascinating. However, I find some of her stubbornness and naiveness about travelling in Burma a little hard to swallow. For example, the way she argued when she tried to get air tickets, withdraw money using visa etc. Things just don't always work or turn out the way we expect it to be. We just have to take it in our stride. I am also a bit annoyed when the author seemed to long for the more colourful and less developed lifestyle of the people she had observed in her previous visit. People living in these less developed countries also deserve progress and modernisation, even if their government mismanaged the process. They still have a lot to learn about how not to be short-sighted to destroy heritage and culture while modernising, we cannot judge them using the standard and priority we are used to in the developed countries. These people don't deserve to live in a primitive way just to satisfy our quest to see something exotic and un-spoilt.
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