And There I was Volume II: A Backpacking Adventure in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, India

By D.H. Koester

This is the second of nine journeys in the "And There I Was" series. In 1991, through a chance meeting in Bangkok with an old CIA station chief and his retired French army counterpart, expeditions were arranged into Cambodia and Laos, both still reeling fifteen years on from the devastating effects of war and genocide. The authors route took him through Thailands northern hill country, on to Cambodia and Laos and finally Nepal and India. Experience intensely profound moments in Laos and Cambodia, sit along the Mother Ganges in the holy city of Varanasi beneath billowing clouds of smoke from crematoriums and contemplate the path of life. Bear witness to Cambodias horrific memorials to the genocide and take in the grandeur of Angkor Wat. Sit in a cave on the Mekong and explain to a Pathet Lao soldier why your country indiscriminately killed so many of his people. Die a slow death in an island bungalow on the Gulf of Thailand, feel the heart-wrenching anguish of a young girls cremation and finally, the emotions evoked when setting ones eyes for the first time upon the Taj Mahal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432793233
• ISBN13: 9781432793234
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"