Chew the Bones: Maddog Essays on Philippine History

ISBN-13: 9781442142596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 128 str.

Bob Couttie

Opis

Take a time-travelling journey of a thousand years of adventure and romance as you explore the unknown highways, byways and strange ways of an lmost forgotten world. Dip into a unique, ye-opening collection of true stories they didn't tell you at school. In this world slaves get benefits worthy of a corporate highflier. A redhaired hard-to-handle Hong Kong-born Irish teenager marries a man determined to change his country's destiny. England's Queen Victoria is given the world's most expensive wedding dress, made by Filipinos. The last cavalry charge in American history begins with a hangover as the first Japanese bombs drop on the Philippines. A Scots-American widow find a new purpose protecting and building lives for the indigenous Aeta people of the Zambales Mountains.

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