false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168974489m/37614.jpg 37614 6 On 20th May, the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are united over central India around 10th July, a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days. Alexander Frater aims to follow the monsoon, staying sometimes behind it, sometimes in front of it, and everywhere watching the impact of this extraordinary phenomenon. During the anxious period of waiting, the weather forecaster is king, consulted by pie-crested cockatoos, and a joyful period ensues: there is a period of promiscuity, and scandals proliferate. Frater's journey takes him to Bangkok and the cowboy town on the Thai-Malaysian border to Rangoon and Akyab in Burma (where the front funnels up between the mountains and the sea). His fascinating narrative reveals the exotic, often startling, discoveries of an ambitious and irresistibly romantic adventurer. 37456 1990 Chasing the Monsoon total:56|5:17|4:26|3:11|2:1|1:1| 56 225 81 10 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 01:18:19 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 04:01:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 22 08:04:42 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 12 01:45:30 -0700 2009
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