Authors:Andrew Burke, Joe Cummings, Joe Cummings,
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Keywords: laos, kit, survival, planet, lonely, travel
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1741040868
ISBN-13: 9781741040869
Part of "The Lonely Planet Country Guides", this book features colour highlights sections, grid-referenced maps, and history, culture, food and environment chapters.
Author: Martin Stuart-Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: laos, history
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-09-28
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521597463
ISBN-13: 9780521597463
This authoritative and wide-ranging history focuses on the period from the founding of modern Laos as a French colony to its independence, involvement in the war in Vietnam, the formation of the communist republic, and the present authoritarian government. The author shows how the nationalist struggle for independence and unity was subverted by foreign intervention, and how the country has now resumed its traditional role as a neutral state in Southeast Asia. This book provides essential background on modern Laos and the challenges it now faces.Book DescriptionThis authoritative and wide-rangi
Author: Andrew Burke
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: guide, country, laos
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1741045681
ISBN-13: 9781741045680
Discover Laos Weave your own path through the temple-lined streets of World Heritage-listed Luang Prabang, p. 134 Find out why Katang villagers sleep with their heads pointed towards an outside wall, p249 Explore the ancient Khmer’s ’imitation of heaven’ at mystical Wat Phu Champasak, p265 Join locals for a riverside Beerlao as the sun sets over the Mekong in Vientiane, p110 In This Guide: Three authors, 1472 hours of on-the-road research, 61 maps Our guide is dedicated to providing travelers with environmentally and culturally aware travel advice Vi
Author: Martin E. Goldstein
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: laos, policy, american
Number of Pages: 347
Published: 1973-06
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0838611311
ISBN-13: 9780838611319
Authors:Stephen Mansfield, Magdalene Koh,
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books
Keywords: world, cultures, laos
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-09
List price: $42.79
ISBN-10: 0761430350
ISBN-13: 9780761430353
Introduces the geography, history, religious beliefs, government, and people of Laos.
Author: James E. Parker Jr.
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Keywords: war, laos, secret, cia, ops, covert
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-11-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0312963408
ISBN-13: 9780312963408
Uncommon war. Uncommon bonds.In 1972, U.S. soldiers battle the North Vietnamese. Behind the headlines, a secret war rages in Laos. Sky, a close knit cadre of daredevil CIA agents, spearheads a daring operation. These gutsy secret agents direct a fearless force of Thai mercenaries and native Hmong tribespeople-- fighting the enemy toe-to-toe.Now Sky veteran James Parker-- codename "Mule"-- reveals the untold story of the covert war in Laos. Parker takes you inside the often mind-boggling world of extraordinary men living and dying on the edge. Covert Ops captures the brutal training and ferocio
Author: Outhine Bounyavong
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: laos, stories, beloved, mother
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-09-05
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0295977361
ISBN-13: 9780295977362
Outhine Bounyavong is one of the most prominent contemporary writers in Laos. His stories are animated with Laotian virtues of simplicity, compassion, respect for age, and other village mores; they breathe with a gentleness that is fresh and distinctive. Outhine is interested in his own memories, in how to behave with compassion, and in the chain of life among men and women that reaches into the earth. Rather than writing through an ideological lens, Outhine focuses on the passions and foibles of ordinary people. Their good luck, disappointments, and plain but poignant conversations reveal the
