White butterflies
By: Colin McPhedran
Publisher: Ridge Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9789814722674
Subjects: Refugees; Biography
Description: "After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran fled his homeland on foot, crossing the rugged Patkoi mountain ranges on foot to reach safety in India. Colin, along with his mother, elder brother and sister and thounsands of others, many of whom died, battled monsoon rains, hunger, disease and exhaustion during the 500-kilometre journey. McPhedran's autobiography recalls his childhood as part of a large Anglo-Burmese family in colonial Burma, and provides and dramatic account of his harrowing trek to freedom. He eventually settled in Australia, where his memoir was first published. This editio, issued in Southeast Asia for the first time, includes a new afterword that supplies details left out of the story as originally published"--Back cover.
Notes: In English.
Table of contents: title: The trek; title: Mother India; title: East of west.