A model American
By: Elsie Burch Donald
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper Large Print
Publisher: W F Howes
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781407413860
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Parti communiste du Kampuchea; Aircraft accidents; Fiction; Buddhists; Americans; English fiction; Atrocities; History
Description: In early 1970, a small plane mysteriously disappears over the Cambodian jungle. Piloted by an American hippie, the passengers are a US businessman, his wife, their young English guide and a Frenchman. Stranded helplessly in the jungle, the westerners are found by local peasants, and taken to safety. Here, cut off from the outside world, they find an enchanting world, full of laughter and festivals; a gentle, sensitive people without greed or violence. As the party adjust to the culture, life presents excitement, pleasure - even love. But a darker, brutal presence threatens to destroy their paradise.
Notes: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2007.