: James Hamilton-Paterson
: Playing with Water Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island
: New Amsterdam Books
: 9781461663348
: 1
: CHF 20.20
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: Belletristik
: English
James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he does. Beyond that, it gives an account of life in that class-bound country as a whole. For it is in places like this rather than Manila of the international news reports that the underlying political and cultural reality of the Philippines may be seen.