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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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Travels 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.