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This elephant didn’t fly but did help save a village

Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue by William Grill

May 27, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue has a mixture of styles. I mean, while this is a non-fiction story about James Howard Williams and an elephant name Bandoola, it is also written as a fiction story. There are facts about elephants, what they eat, etc., as well as what is used and done of the teak plantation. The story is a bit controversial as it does depict the fact elephants in Myanmar were used to harvest the teak for sale around the world. It mentions some […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bandoola, Burma, Elephants, Environmental Conservation & Protection, James Howard Williams, lumber/teak, Military & Wars, Myanmar, Po Toke, William Grill, World War Two

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:262 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bandoola, Burma, Elephants, Environmental Conservation & Protection, James Howard Williams, lumber/teak, Military & Wars, Myanmar, Po Toke, William Grill, World War Two ·
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Of Lice and Men

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

February 20, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Nothing endures. Don’t you see, Bonox? That’s what Kipling meant. Not empires, not memories. We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.  On the face of it, the plot of The Narrow Road to the Deep North is about war: […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Burma, Richard Flanagan, the narrow road to the deep north, World War II fiction

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Burma, Richard Flanagan, the narrow road to the deep north, World War II fiction ·
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Fear and Paranoia in Burma

November 8, 2014 by denesteak Leave a Comment

This book was a random acquisition and comes with a bit of backstory. I was reporting in Mandalay, central Burma, on a number of stories, and one of them required me to interview a comedy troupe that is known for staging vaudevillian shows that harpoons the country’s authoritarian regime. Now that Burma is considered a democracy, this comedy troupe is still putting up nightly shows for tourists, making fun of the fact that the current government is really a puppet for the military. One of […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, Burma, democracy, denesteak, government, Myanmar, travel

denesteak's CBR6 Review No:11 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, Burma, democracy, denesteak, government, Myanmar, travel ·
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The Lady, in All Her Shades of Grey

July 27, 2014 by denesteak Leave a Comment

If you need a book that can explain to you the context of Burma’s burgeoning transition to a democracy (or at least a nominal democracy), this book by Bertil Lintner is a good one. Not only is it a relatively short look at the modern history of Burma, now known as Myanmar, Lintner’s profession as a journalist makes this read very easy to digest. As the title of the book suggest, a lot of it concerns Aung San Suu Kyi, and how the people in […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #CBR6, Burma, denesteak, politics

denesteak's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: History · Tags: #CBR6, Burma, denesteak, politics ·
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