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"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."
- Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865),
on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe
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ZIN Product Number: 10000658
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 0007127057
Release Date: Jan 7, 2000
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
In 1989 the 65-year-old American lawyer trekked from China to India through the wild Kachin hill country of northern Burma. After being captured by Communist rebels in Burma, he linked up with the Kachin Independence Army, which had been battling the Rangoon government since Burmese independents half a century before. He is working on another book on Burmese troubles. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| | | | From The Publisher
Shelby Tucker entered the Shan State of Burma through a border area of China closed to foreigners, crossed the Kachin Hills and left Burma via an area of India closed to foreigners. He was detained by Communist rebels, handed over to Kachin rebels and arrested by the Indian Army." "Among Insurgents is more than an adventure story. It describes the Kachins, the most important of Burma's 'hidden colonies', of whom very little has been written, offers a brief and readable analysis of the Burmese Civil War, including its ethnic and religious dimensions, and examines the symbiotic relationship between the civil war and the international drugs trade. Shelby Tucker interviewed poppy farmers and leaders on both sides of the narcotics divide, and his report to the US National Security Council may have contributed to Washington's changed perception of the Burma Army as the main player in the trade.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 1 Average Rating:
Fascinating and unusual travel book
-- A reviewer, a retired medical practitioner, September 1, 2000
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
I cannot recommend Among Insurgents highly enough. Shelby Tucker describes a quite extraordinary trek across the genuinely remote and dangerous mountainous north of Burma. His account gets to grips with an immensely complicated political scenario and is written in the classic manner. I was reminded quite often of Fitzroy MacLean and Peter Fleming. —Justin Wintle
I read the book over the weekend and laughed my head off. What an addle-pated odyssey it is. The nonchalance with which he does things that could get him locked up in some bamboo cage for thirty or forty years takes my breath away. I've seldom been more aware of the thinness of the line between courage and lunacy. Luckily for his narrative, he is aware of it too, and has great fun jumping back and forth over it. I take my hat off to him, both for actually doing what he did and for writing so well about it. —Tobias Wolff
To one familiar with the dangers inherent in such an enterprise, the story almost defies belief. A 53-year-old American teams up with a 22-year-old Swede, whom he has met on a train and known for less than an hour, with the aim of trekking across one of the most inaccessible and least explored areas on earth, in a country which, everyone recognizes, is ruled by a military autocracy and which has been engaged in a vicious civil war for nearly half a century. —Stephen Morse
| |  | | | | Maps and Illustrations | | | Acronyms and Abbreviations | | | Glossary | | | Itinerary: Dali-Oxford | | | Dramatis Personae | | | Acknowledgements | | | 1 | Fading Red Star | 1 | | 2 | The General's House Guests | 33 | | 3 | The Sons of Wahkyet Wa | 66 | | 4 | The Triangle | 103 | | 5 | Kumawng | 155 | | 6 | The Rivers | 198 | | 7 | Hidden Valley | 226 | | 8 | Arrest House | 269 | | Epilogue | 329 | | An Appreciation | 337 | | Cartographer's Note | 342 | | Chronological Guide to the Burmese Civil War | 346 | | Bibliography | 359 | | Note to the Author | 367 | | Index | 371 |
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