Heat Treatment – Travels Beyond the Orient – from Bangkok to the Solomon Islands –

Justin Wintle

“Lured towards the South Pacific by a chance remark made in Hong Kong, and determined to try his luck as a journalist, Justin Wintle sets out on a journey most of us can only dream about –  over land and across the seas from Thailand to the tiny Solomon Islands.

In Bangkok his endeavours to research AIDS are thwarted by the Thai Government. He is also prevented from interviewing Queen Sirikit, and instead has to seek out the Canadian abbot of a Buddhist Monastery. In Malaysia he observes the decline of democracy and delivers a walking-stick to a grandmother in the jungles of Sarawak. In Indonesia he is holed up in Surabaya, falls off a motorcycle on Lombok and reports on genocide in Irian Jaya.

When finally he reaches the Solomons, one man among the welter of archbishops, politicians and war-heroes dominates his attention: the former governor of Wandsworth Prison. And the double-tale Wintle extracts on Guadalcanal is as splendid as it is timeless – involving anarchy, blood-bounties, and billions of dollars.

From beginning to end Heat Treatment is packed with incident, anecdote, adventure and above all, people. A host of characters – among them Kanda the ‘local Suzy Wong’, Sidney the Chinese taxi driver, Harris the Sasak fixer – are recalled with real zest. In a remarkable performance Justin Wintle takes hold of the East as few have done before, deftly interweaving travel, history and tropical politics with a novelist’s awareness of the extremes of the human lot.”


Kenmerken

ISBN

9780460070126

Uitgever

J.M. Dent

Uitgave

1988

Oorspronkelijk

1988

Talen Engels
Landen Indonesië, Maleisië Singap Brun, Nieuw Guinea, Oceanië divers, Thailand

Beschrijving

hardcover, met stofomslag, 285 blz, in goede staat (ex-libris op schutblad)

12.95

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