Dragons on the Roof: Unravelling Vietnam
ISBN13:
9781999843601
$13.16
An ideal companion for those who want more than a guidebook, for those who wish to dig a bit deeper into this enigmatic country. Journalist and travel writer Carol Howland was so beguiled by Vietnam and saw it changing so fast that she rushed back to spend a year, travelling the length of this long, thin country - to capture its traditional culture before it disappears. Delving into this two thousand-year-old civilization, she meets a man who creates 'antique' Buddhist statues, a woman who 'sculpts' royal banquets, the aged manservant of the last dowager queen and one of the men who might have become emperor - if Vietnam still had an emperor. She leads us through the palaces of the last imperial capital, now a World Heritage Site, and takes us backstage at Hanoi's classical opera and the traditional water puppet theatre. The writer penetrates Vietnam's traditional culture in a friendly, bemused and insightful way, through the stories and the lives of the people and the cultural leaders she met.
- | Author: Carol Howland
- | Publisher: Mynah Bird Books
- | Publication Date: Jun 24, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 252 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1999843606
- | ISBN-13: 9781999843601
- Author:
- Carol Howland
- Publisher:
- Mynah Bird Books
- Publication Date:
- Jun 24, 2018
- Number of pages:
- 252 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1999843606
- ISBN-13:
- 9781999843601