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South East Asia reading list

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Obviously, not all of the information contained in the various blog postings of the Indochina blog and the South East Asia blog come from personal knowledge or observation. When travelling we carry a small travel library, to which we kepe on adding, and we do read up on the area prior to departure. Below some [...]
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Lebanon reading list

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As always,  I try to come prepared, visiting a country. This is what I read (and what I still want to read) on Lebanon.   1 – “Lebanon through writer’s eyes”, edited by T.J.Gorton and A.Feghali Gorton (2009), is a collection of extracts from people who have written about Lebanon, or the area that now [...]
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Horn of Africa reading list

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As always, a journey is so much nicer if it can be placed in perspective, for which we read a variety of books, before and during (and quite often after) the trip. This is what influenced this account:   1.      A classic travelogue, plus a whole lot more, is “Life of my choice” (1987), by William [...]
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A reading list for Argentina

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Part of the fun traveling is trying to understand another country, another society, and books are an integral part of that learning experience. There is history, there are opinions,  and there have been others traveling – their views are often equally interesting to read (as compared to mine, of course). Below an incomplete selection from [...]
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Een Argentijnse droom, of toch een nachtmerrie?

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“Het Gedroomde Land” (2012) van Vera Keur en Theo van Stegeren beschrijft een land dat gedomineerd werd, en nog steeds wordt, door corrupte sterke mannen aan het hoofd van de instituties – nationale en provinciale regeringen, het leger en de marine, de kerk, de grote bedrijven – die samenspannen om Argentinie te exploiteren.
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