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Saigon : mistress of the Mekong : an anthology / selected and edited by Anastasia Edwards.
Van Pelt Library DS559.93.S2 S254 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Literary anthologies of Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).
- Physical Description:
- xx, 303 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- The seventy-some extracts in this anthology tell the story of Saigon's expansion from a village in a forest, via its colonization by the French and occupation by the Americans, to the fiercely Vietnamese city it is today. Among the authors represented are Graham Greene, John Pilger, Colin Thubron, Somerset Maugham, and Osbert Sitwell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-301).
- ISBN:
- 0195906020
- OCLC:
- 51511271
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