A Phoenix Rising

– Impressions of Vietnam –

“In this thoughtful, informative and very personal account of a journey from Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta to Hanoi and Halong Bay, Zoë Schramm-Evans delves behind the cliché-ridden images of Vietnam, to discover a country poised on the brink of the most remarkable social and economic change. On her journey she meets former Viet Cong Fighters, students, journalists, civil servants, street children, prostitutes, entrepreneurs and, of course, fellow travellers.

Throughout her travels she observes with humour, and occasonal despair, the energy, the excitement, the struggles and the sometimes surreal juxtapositions of old an new, East an dWest, which are Vietnam.”