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Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma
Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma
Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma
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Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma

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In 1986 Charles Nicholl went to Thailand, intending to take a 'spiritual rest-cure' in a Buddhist forest temple. But the way there had many surprising side turnings. A chance meeting on the night train north takes him on a circuitous journey in the company of Harry, a French gem-trader with a chequered past, and his mercurial Thai girlfriend, Katai. For the travel writer, he learns, it's not what you go looking for that counts, but what you find. They drift along the banks of the Mekong, up into the Golden Triangle and into the rebel strongholds of northern Burma. Opium dreams and jade windows, spirit-callers and moon-hares: Nicholl's crisp, vivid prose captures every detail of this elusive adventure, as we travel with him across borderlines both real and imaginary.
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Release dateMay 25, 2021
ISBN9781780601823
Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma
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Charles Nicholl

Charles Nicholl has written twelve books of history, biography and travel. The Reckoning, an investigation of the murder of Christopher Marlowe, won the James Tait Black Prize for biography and the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Gold Dagger’ for non-fiction. His other books include an acclaimed biography of Leonardo da Vinci; a reconstruction of a sixteenth-century expedition in search of El Dorado; and the travel classic Borderlines, set in 1980s Thailand (also published by Eland) and The Fruit Palace, about life among the drug-smugglers of Colombia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex.

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    Travels in Thailand and a little Burma. Rather too much of the author and too little of the history and geography for my tastes, but not horrible.

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