Dark Brown Is The River

by John Maxtone-Graham

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0025823604
• ISBN13: 9780025823600
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: MacMillan
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Little Known ... Could Almost Be a Classic

From the book jacket: " ... takes us to that remote and lonely country so colorfully explored by Conrad and Maugham--the world of the expatriate drifter, far from home and roots, playing out his search for identity under an alien eastern sun ... from a privileged Anglo-American childhood into precarious maturity as a silent, absentminded reader and dreamer with a quixotic passion for ... he sailed from London in October of 1947, and at that point his family lost what little touch they had had with him ... he had gotten in some nameless trouble ... Ceylon ... a remote valley in the New Guinea Highlands ..." The characters in this story were people I wanted to know.