: James Hamilton-Paterson
: Playing With Water Alone on a Philippine Island
: Faber& Faber
: 9780571314003
: 1
: CHF 14.00
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: Ratgeber
: English
A classic of travel writing. For many years award-winning writer James Hamilton-Paterson spent a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he did. Yet it also 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.