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Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma

by Shelby Tucker
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780007127054
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Flamingo
  • Publisher Imprint: Flamingo
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 416
  • Original Price: GBP 10.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Item Weight: 386 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / Southeast, Adventurers & Explorers, and Memoirs

From the Back Cover

Ten years ago, at the age of 53, Shelby Tucker set out to cross Burma on foot from China to India when land access to Burma was forbidden. Tucker had a rucksack, a diary and some inaccurate maps. He recruited a 6ft 4in Swede, Mats, whom he had met on the train to Beijing.

Near the beginning of their walk through the jungle they encountered a group of naked boys bathing - they realized too late that their Chinese Army uniforms were on the banks. With typical sangfroid, Tucker leapt in to join them, shouting incomprehensible English greetings...

Before long they were in the hands of the Kachin Independence Army and managed to survive many near misses with the Burmese Army. Despite pain and constant danger, Tucker recorded each day the vivid beauty of the country, and the courtesy and hospitality of the Kachins (the most important of Burma's hidden colonies, about whom very little has been written).

Shelby Tucker is an American who read law at Oxford and practised for many years. He had addressed the US National Security Council on Burma and lectured on the Kachins and the Burmese Civil War at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and elsewhere. He has also acted as General Counsel for the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma.

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