ENGLISH

Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of Clara and André Malraux

By Axel Madsen

Book information

Publisher
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Year
2010
ISBN
1848851901, 9781848851900
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
492 kB (503570 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Time added
2015-09-14 20:59:25
Travelers Explorers Biographies Memoirs History Af

Description

André and Clara Malraux had the world at their feet. Wealthy and carefree, their life was a bohemian idyll spent frequenting the hottest clubs and restaurants, and traveling and mingling with the Paris literary set. But all this changed when the stock market crashed and their fortune disappeared overnight. Penniless but still craving adventure, André dreamt up a plan to travel to French Indochina where they would collect temple treasures and sell them for a huge profit in America. Against all the odds—jungle fevers, inexperience, and uncooperative locals—they succeeded. But their treasure hunt turned into a dangerous crusade when Clara and André set up an anti-government newspaper in Saigon, defiantly exposing colonial injustices, corruption, and the government’s stifling of Asian culture.

Similar books