num_pages: 288
description: James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he does. Beyond that, it gives an account of life in that class-bound country as a whole. For it is in places like this rather than Manila of the international news reports that the underlying political and cultural reality of the Philippines may be seen.
language: English
title: Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island
titlecomplete: Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island (Twentieth Century Lives)
genres: Asia, Travel, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 120
publisher: New Amsterdam Books