The Washington Post, April 21st, 2002
THE TROUSER PEOPLE A Story of Burma -- in the Shadow of the Empire By Andrew Marshall Counterpoint. 308 pp. $26 BEYOND THE LAST VILLAGE A Journey of Discovery In Asia's Forbidden Wilderness By Alan Rabinowitz Island Press. 300 pp. $25 Burma (also known as Myanmar) is a country about which very little is known to the world outside, and that little usually derives from bad ink. Given the scarcity of good news from this isolated land -- thanks to a government whose brutality is exceeded only by its greed - - it is heartening to have two new books that redress this scarcity by reminding us of the ...
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