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    Looking Back 2: Dirty Dancing: Looking Back Series, #2
    Looking Back 3: Death by Garrote: Looking Back Series, #3
    Looking Back: Looking Back Series, #1
    Ebook series6 titles

    Looking Back Series

    By Ambeth R. Ocampo

    5/5

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    About this series

    "In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded history–whether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards of Ming porcelain on a coral beach–Ocampo reminds us that the endless gathering and joining and breaking apart of apparently 'useless' bits is, after all, what makes us what we are, and connects us with others in their own quest for identity." -Tina Cuyugan, author and editor

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnvil Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateOct 18, 2012
    Looking Back 2: Dirty Dancing: Looking Back Series, #2
    Looking Back 3: Death by Garrote: Looking Back Series, #3
    Looking Back: Looking Back Series, #1

    Titles in the series (6)

    • 1

      Looking Back: Looking Back Series, #1
      Looking Back: Looking Back Series, #1

      Looking Back: Looking Back Series, #1

      Ambeth R. Ocampo
      4/5 - 6 ratings
      4/5 - 6 ratings

      Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligence–except for historians. In this handy collection of Ambeth Ocampo's "Looking Back" column pieces, the popular historian digs deep and looks back carefully at events, places and important people who make up the country's history.

      Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligence–except for historians. In this handy collection of Ambeth Ocampo's "Looking Back" column pieces, the popular historian digs deep and looks back carefully at events, places and important people who make up the country's history.

    • 2

      Looking Back 2: Dirty Dancing: Looking Back Series, #2
      Looking Back 2: Dirty Dancing: Looking Back Series, #2

      Looking Back 2: Dirty Dancing: Looking Back Series, #2

      Ambeth R. Ocampo
      4/5 - 4 ratings
      4/5 - 4 ratings

      Ambeth Ocampo always makes historical figures come alive, blemishes and all, and with his curious eye, make our heroes very human and not the mythic figures that we want to make of them. [He] makes history enjoyable reading while at the same time makes it anchor us to the past and therefore, and hopefully, prepares us for the future." – F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature

      Ambeth Ocampo always makes historical figures come alive, blemishes and all, and with his curious eye, make our heroes very human and not the mythic figures that we want to make of them. [He] makes history enjoyable reading while at the same time makes it anchor us to the past and therefore, and hopefully, prepares us for the future." – F. Sionil Jose, National Artist for Literature

    • 3

      Looking Back 3: Death by Garrote: Looking Back Series, #3
      Looking Back 3: Death by Garrote: Looking Back Series, #3

      Looking Back 3: Death by Garrote: Looking Back Series, #3

      Ambeth R. Ocampo
      4/5 - 4 ratings
      4/5 - 4 ratings

      The cause of history writing owes Ambeth Ocampo a great deal. By his extraordinary use of a relatively new genre, he has rescued history from the cold, forbidding halls of academe. He has made of history something amusing, entertaining . . . as immediate as a newspaper headline, as relevant as a rapper's song." – Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil

      The cause of history writing owes Ambeth Ocampo a great deal. By his extraordinary use of a relatively new genre, he has rescued history from the cold, forbidding halls of academe. He has made of history something amusing, entertaining . . . as immediate as a newspaper headline, as relevant as a rapper's song." – Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil

    • 4

      Looking Back 4: Chulalongkorn's Elephants: The Philippines in Asian History (Revised Edition): Looking Back Series, #4
      Looking Back 4: Chulalongkorn's Elephants: The Philippines in Asian History (Revised Edition): Looking Back Series, #4

      Looking Back 4: Chulalongkorn's Elephants: The Philippines in Asian History (Revised Edition): Looking Back Series, #4

      Ambeth R. Ocampo
      4/5 - 1 rating
      4/5 - 1 rating

      Ambeth Ocampo on the inspiration behind this collection of essays: "Chulalongkorn's elephants are the bronze elephants the King of Siam gave to Singapore and Java as gifts during his travels in 1871. I met the Singapore elephant first as I traced Rizal's footsteps and found a reference to it in his diary. It was upon meeting next the Jakarta elephant that prompted me to compile this collection of essays that begins and ends with an elephant. More reflective than usual and going beyond Rizal and my 19th-centuray comfort zone, these explorations still carry my trademark irreverent humor."

      Ambeth Ocampo on the inspiration behind this collection of essays: "Chulalongkorn's elephants are the bronze elephants the King of Siam gave to Singapore and Java as gifts during his travels in 1871. I met the Singapore elephant first as I traced Rizal's footsteps and found a reference to it in his diary. It was upon meeting next the Jakarta elephant that prompted me to compile this collection of essays that begins and ends with an elephant. More reflective than usual and going beyond Rizal and my 19th-centuray comfort zone, these explorations still carry my trademark irreverent humor."

    • 5

      Looking Back 5: Rizal's Teeth, Bonifacio's Bones: Looking Back Series, #5
      Looking Back 5: Rizal's Teeth, Bonifacio's Bones: Looking Back Series, #5

      Looking Back 5: Rizal's Teeth, Bonifacio's Bones: Looking Back Series, #5

      Ambeth R. Ocampo
      5/5 - 2 ratings
      5/5 - 2 ratings

      In this book, besides offering the usual juicy titbits, he looks not just at our history but also on his life as a historian, this book being written for his 50th birthday. His introduction alone is already worth the price of admission. - Ramon C. Sunico, publisher and poet 

      In this book, besides offering the usual juicy titbits, he looks not just at our history but also on his life as a historian, this book being written for his 50th birthday. His introduction alone is already worth the price of admission. - Ramon C. Sunico, publisher and poet 

    • 6

      Looking Back 6: Prehistoric Philippines: Looking Back Series, #6
      Looking Back 6: Prehistoric Philippines: Looking Back Series, #6

      Looking Back 6: Prehistoric Philippines: Looking Back Series, #6

      Ambeth R. Ocampo
      4/5 - 5 ratings
      4/5 - 5 ratings

      "In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded history–whether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards of Ming porcelain on a coral beach–Ocampo reminds us that the endless gathering and joining and breaking apart of apparently 'useless' bits is, after all, what makes us what we are, and connects us with others in their own quest for identity." -Tina Cuyugan, author and editor

      "In these beguiling essays on what lies beyond the fringes of Philippine recorded history–whether pointing out the laughing carabao on the margins of a centuries-old map, or combing for shards of Ming porcelain on a coral beach–Ocampo reminds us that the endless gathering and joining and breaking apart of apparently 'useless' bits is, after all, what makes us what we are, and connects us with others in their own quest for identity." -Tina Cuyugan, author and editor

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