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    <body><![CDATA[Another great Normn Lewis book.  Amazing stories from Vietnam, Cambodia and Loas, in the 1950's at the end of the French colonial times.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite travel writing books ever. Lewis is relentlessly curious, writes in clear, poetic prose and seems to put himself in all the right places. He is also eerily prescient about the inevitability of brutal war coming to South  East Asia. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[an absolute classic and tremendous reading for anyone going to Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia. Sadly, only Laos still has some of the feel that Lewis so eloquently describes.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly fascinating, but not to the point where I was riveted.  I would have preferred more context on the French colonial history of the time.]]></body>
    
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