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Golden Earth

Golden Earth

Author(s): Norman Lewis

Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)

Genre(s): Travelogue

Era(s): Post 1940

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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 – an overnight best-seller when first published – revisits the tragic Burma road, treked by so many refugees fleeing Burma before the Japanese advance in 1942

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It will lure toward Burma almost anyone who reads its ninety thousand words. — Simon Winchester, Traveler

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