A beautifully observed book about the successes and] turmoils . . . of Southeast Asia. . . . Invaluable. William Shawcross
Borneo a magnificent island rain forest where the gentle Penan people, some of the world s last hunter-gatherers, are waging a campaign of nonviolent resistance against rapacious timber companies; Singapore a gleaming capitalist Eden where chewing gum is illegal and a political prisoner serves out his sentence in a theme park; Laos a land still haunted by the periodic detonation of Vietnam War-era bombs along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and where a Buddhist perestroika...