When Christopher Hunt set off in search of Vietnam’s notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail, he hardly expected to end up on a rickety, Russian-made motorcycle navigating 5,000 kilometers of paths rarely traveled by tourists and on roads missing from maps.
Hunt left the United States expecting to explore the 1,700-kilometer highway that was once the supply route for the North Vietnamese Army. He soon found himself roaming the Vietnamese countryside in need of help and direction. In the process, he found that being an American in Vietnam conjured constant reminders of the past and encountered a country and a people poised precariously between the ancient and the modern.
With adventure, wit, and an eye for the absurd, Hunt goes beyond the newspaper headlines and myths about Vietnam to capture the color and complexity of Vietnam today.
For a small country far from America, Vietnam--for obvious reasons--looms large in the American imagination. Journalist Christopher Hunt provides a sometimes amusing and often insightful look at this country while describing his attempt to travel over the famed supply line of the North Vietnamese army. Tom Parker is clear, well paced, and sensitive to the nuances of the work in his reading of this cleverly written text. His capacity to capture the many accents of the characters--from American vets living in Vietnam to both sympathetic and belligerent Vietnamese--makes this a better than average performance. M.L.C. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
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"Hunt provides a sometimes amusing and often insightful look at this country...Tom Parker is clear, well paced, and sensitive to the nuances of the work in his reading of this cleverly written text."
About the Author
Christopher Hunt is the author of Sparring with Charlie: Motorbiking Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Born in New York City and raised in Beirut, he graduated from Dartmouth College and the London School of Economics before working as a staff reporter for the Asian Wall Street Journal and The Economist. He lives in Manhattan. For now. Author P.J. O’Rourke said of Hunt, “It is the job of the travel writer to have an awful time, and Christopher Hunt is an expert in his profession.”
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