Native Tourist, The: A Holiday Pilgrimage in Myanmar Classic edited by Don McCaskill

edited by Don McCaskill

The book concentrates on these and illustrates how a distinctly Cambodian Theravada developed by accommodating itself to premodern Khmer modes of thought

thanks both to my fear and to my ability to keep my mind under control

Muslims today give considerable attention to political and social organization and to reaching an accommodation with the new political systems that have arisen in Southeast Asia

His varied experience as peasant

Native Tourist, The: A Holiday Pilgrimage in Myanmar Classic edited by Don McCaskillThis is the delightful story of an eighteen day local bus pilgrimage to sixty pagodas across Myanmar. As the author settles into her bus seat, the aisle blocked with luggage, she trains our eyes on the collection of characters that, like it or not, will be her travelling companions for the whirlwind tour. This native tourist amuses us with her adventures of eating at roadside cafes, climbing up pagodas, bathing in rivers, shopping at markets, and