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The Datura of the East: In the Footsteps of Orwell, Conrad, Kipling and Other Great Writers Enchanted by Asia

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The Datura of the East: In the Footsteps of Orwell, Conrad, Kipling and Other Great Writers Enchanted by Asia
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A travel diary of sorts by a Spanish journalist who spent almost two decades in Southeast Asia. Following in the footsteps of legendary writers, David Jimenez embarks on his own odyssey to understand what drew celebrities to the East. He finds himself in Myanmar, where Orwell served as an agent of the colonial police; in China, where the legendary journalist Martha Gellhorn made her “journey to hell” in the company of Hemingway; in the Philippines, the “country of the absurd,” so vividly described by Manu Legineche. Turning to their memories becomes the starting point for the author’s reflections on modern Asia — on the changes that have already happened to it, and the transformations that await it in the future.

“The Datura of the East” is a collection of fascinating chapters where the past and the present are intertwined, biographical details and reportage sketches inevitably give rise to the desire to set off on a journey.
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