Chasing the Monsoon [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Frater, Alexander

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140105166 ISBN 13: 9780140105162

Casa editrice: Penguin, 1991

Riassunto

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 untied over central India around 10th July, a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days. 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 will take 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).

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140105166
• ISBN 13: 9780140105162
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288