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Water buffalo days : growing up in Vietnam / by Huynh Quang Nhuong ; pictures by Jean and Mou-sien Tseng.
Van Pelt Library SF401.W34 H88 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huynh, Quang Nhuong.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Villages.
- Manners and customs.
- Water buffalo.
- Central Highlands (Vietnam)--Social life and customs.
- Central Highlands (Vietnam).
- Vietnam--Central Highlands.
- Vietnam--Social life and customs.
- Huynh, Quang Nhuong.
- Water buffalo--Vietnam--Central Highlands--Biography.
- Villages--Vietnam--Central Highlands--Social life and customs.
- Villages--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Harper Trophy edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperTrophy, 1999.
- Summary:
- The author describes his close relationship to two water buffalo that were part of his family when he was growing up in a village in the central highlands of Vietnam.
- Contents:
- Missing water jug
- The perfect bull
- Bargaining
- The new calf
- Making friends
- Exploring
- Playtime
- Naming the bull
- Leading the herd
- Earthquake
- Crocodile alert
- A fierce fighter
- Father and son
- Hunting
- Tiger ambush
- The fallen hero.
- ISBN:
- 0064462110
- 9780064462112
- 0060249579
- 9780060249571
- OCLC:
- 40859303
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