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Very good. xii, 307, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Author's Note. Bibliography. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Andrew Marshall is a British author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Bangkok, Thailand. Since 1993 he has explored Asia's remotest regions for magazines and newspapers worldwide, including TIME, The Sunday Times Magazine, National Geographic, Esquire, and many others. Since January 2012 he has worked for Reuters news agency as a Southeast Asia Special Correspondent. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2014. His book The Trouser People, about football and dictatorship in Burma, was a New York Times Notable Book and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is also co-author of The Cult at the End of the World, a prescient account of Japan's homicidal Aum cult and the rise of high-tech terrorism. His books have been translated into ten languages. Andrew Marshall has written an unforgettable adventure story, the wry account of two journeys into the untraveled heart of Burma. Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People recounts the story of George Scott, the eccentric British explorer, photographer, adventurer, and later Colonial Administrator of Burma, who introduced the Empire's best game (soccer! ) to Burmese natives and to the forbidden Wa state of headhunters, who were similarly enthusiastic about it. The second, contrasting journey is Marshall's own, taking the same dangerous path one hundred years later in a country now devastated by colonial incompetence, war, and totalitarianism. Wonderfully observed, mordantly funny, and skillfully recounted, this is journalistic travel writing at its best. Derived from a Kirkus review: Travels, both madcap and somber, into the terra incognita of Burma. No, not Myanmar, insists British journalist Marshall. The Taliban-like military dictatorship has ruled Burma since 1962 coined the name, Myanmar, as "part of an unpopular and cynical campaign against the country's minority peoples." The hook on which Marshall hangs his lively narrative is the familiar travel-lit ploy of following in the footsteps of some previous voyager, in this instance the encyclopedist, linguist, and explorer George Scott, "the last of the guilt-free imperialists, " whose careful gazetteering left no detail of Burmese life unturned. By this account, Scott was a thoughtful, generally likable fellow, as imperialists and data-gatherers go; Marshall uses his predecessor's observations as a sort of tuning fork against which to sound his own. These range from the outright grim (the dictatorship's vicious repression of Burma's countless peoples) to Apocalypse Now-surreal (an orange-robed Buddhist monk, cell-phone trilling, poring over a number of recent copies of Guns and Ammo in the depths of the jungle) to the amusing (recounting his language-mangling efforts to make himself understood, he writes, "I had only a smattering of Burmese, but even that seemed like a small victory over astounding linguistic odds"). Balancing politically charged narrations and thoughtful ethnographic descriptions, Marshall never loses Scott's trail, though it becomes quickly apparent that he did not need to follow it to write The Trouser People. He describes himself with self-deprecatory humor, but all the same Marshall emerges from these pages as an extraordinarily intrepid traveler and trustworthy narrator whose finely detailed account will want to make readers hop on the next plane to Rangoon to help overthrow the generals' corrupt, narcodollar-fed regime. Excellent from first word to last.
