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Encounters on the Front Line: Cambodia: A Memoir
Encounters on the Front Line: Cambodia: A Memoir
Encounters on the Front Line: Cambodia: A Memoir
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In 1980 Elaine Harvey worked for the International Red Cross in the Cambodian refugee camps immediately after the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. It was a time when sorrow fell like monsoon rain. “I was not a victim of war, poverty, or starvation, but I was a witness. As a witness, I came to understand that front lines take a toll in our lives. They test how far we will go, how much we will give and how deep we will travel.”
In 2007 and 2009 she returned to Cambodia, volunteering in a rural orphanage and a city hospice. She met the people on the front lines – the human rights activists, the caregivers, and those who needed care, inspiring her to explore the challenges of service. Her journey was a quest of the heart to meet the new face of Cambodia and honour the one she left behind.
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Release dateJan 1, 1900
ISBN9781927559673
Encounters on the Front Line: Cambodia: A Memoir
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Elaine Harvey

Elaine Harvey is a nurse, a writer, a healing touch practitioner and a traveller. A diverse career and her adventurous spirit have taken her to remote regions of the world with experiences in Asia and Africa marking her world view. She currently resides in Victoria, on the west coast of Canada. Encounters on the Front Line is Elaine's first book of creative non-fiction.

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    Meh! Not bad, not great. A lot about people and relationships more than events and facts. Some of all four but being written by a woman it has that chacteristic flavour of feelings over facts. Best part was the to me very interesting first section on her role as a nurse at refugee camp in Thailand. But her return visit to Cambodia many years later is not at all as interesting. The author appears to be very similar to every other middle-class western do-gooder female visitor. I am not saying they are bad, just as a male visitor I think she has a shallow understanding of men's preferences. A bit too 'touchy-feely' and New Age for me. Read 'River of Time' instead. Context: I have been coming to Cambodia since UNTAC.

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