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Boulle, Pierre

The Source of the River Kwai

1967

34.78 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Year of publication
1967
Place of printing
London. Secker & Warburg
Author
Boulle, Pierre
Edition
First edition in English, translated from the French.
Keyword
Travel - Asia
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [20.5 x 13 cm]; 214 pp, map endpapers. original green cloth, silver spine title lettering, bookplate removed from rear endpaper, very good clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Boulle, a planter in Malaya at war's outbreak, joined the French forces in Indo-China. He set out alone to travel the Burma road which he accomplished in record time. Later he was sent as a secret agent to the borders of Tonkin with orders to infiltrate into Indo-China. He built a bamboo raft and shot the perilous rapids of Nam-Na to the Red river where he hoped to reach Hanoi but was arrested by the Vichy French. He was the author of 'The Bridge on the Rive Kwai', 'Monkey Planet', Planet of the Apes, etc.
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