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On the Shadow Tracks

- A Journey through Occupied Myanmar
Af: Clare Hammond Engelsk Hardback

On the Shadow Tracks

- A Journey through Occupied Myanmar
Af: Clare Hammond Engelsk Hardback
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''On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’
Joanna Lumley

In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways'' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence that surrounded them. She would spend three months travelling on these mysterious railways, and the next five years piecing their story together.

Her journey would take her from Myanmar''s tropical south to the embattled mountain towns that border India and China. In dilapidated carriages, along tracks in disrepair, through contested ethnic states and former sites of forced labour, visiting temples, tea shops and festivals, Clare encountered a colourful and contradictory Myanmar through the stories of its people. Simultaneously a lush and evocative travelogue, an unsparing account of Myanmar''s recent history, and an astonishing, conversation-shifting engagement with Britain''s colonial legacy, On the Shadow Tracks is that rare and necessary thing: a book that finds and tells the truth.

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''On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’
Joanna Lumley

In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways'' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence that surrounded them. She would spend three months travelling on these mysterious railways, and the next five years piecing their story together.

Her journey would take her from Myanmar''s tropical south to the embattled mountain towns that border India and China. In dilapidated carriages, along tracks in disrepair, through contested ethnic states and former sites of forced labour, visiting temples, tea shops and festivals, Clare encountered a colourful and contradictory Myanmar through the stories of its people. Simultaneously a lush and evocative travelogue, an unsparing account of Myanmar''s recent history, and an astonishing, conversation-shifting engagement with Britain''s colonial legacy, On the Shadow Tracks is that rare and necessary thing: a book that finds and tells the truth.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 400
ISBN-13: 9780241623893
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0241623898
Kategori: British Empire
Udg. Dato: 6 jun 2024
Længde: 36mm
Bredde: 145mm
Højde: 223mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 6 jun 2024
Forfatter(e): Clare Hammond
Forfatter(e) Clare Hammond

Kategori British Empire

ISBN-13 9780241623893

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 400

Udgave

Længde 36mm

Bredde 145mm

Højde 223mm

Udg. Dato 6 jun 2024

Oplagsdato 6 jun 2024

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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