Sparring with Charlie
Subtitle: motorbiking down the Ho Chi Minh trail
By: Christopher Hunt.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Hunt, Christopher, 1963- -- Travel -- Vietnam.; Vietnam -- Description and travel.; Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Description: 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.