Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of Clara and Andre Malraux [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Madsen, Axel

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ISBN 10: 1848851901 ISBN 13: 9781848851900

Casa editrice: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2010

Riassunto

André and Clara Malraux had the world at their feet. Wealthy and carefree, their life was a bohemian idyll spent frequenting the hottest clubs and restaurants, and traveling and mingling with the Paris literary set. But all this changed when the stock market crashed and their fortune disappeared overnight. Penniless but still craving adventure, André dreamt up a plan to travel to French Indochina where they would collect temple treasures and sell them for a huge profit in America. Against all the odds—jungle fevers, inexperience, and uncooperative locals—they succeeded. But their treasure hunt turned into a dangerous crusade when Clara and André set up an anti-government newspaper in Saigon, defiantly exposing colonial injustices, corruption, and the government’s stifling of Asian culture.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Axel Madsen was a biographer and journalist. Born in Denmark and raised in Paris, he first began writing for the Paris edition of The New York Herald Tribune. He moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s, where he wrote biographies of Coco Chanel, Billy Wilder, John Jacob Astor, and Jacques Cousteau among others. He died in 2007.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1848851901
• ISBN 13: 9781848851900
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 299
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile