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Boulle, Pierre

The Source of the River Kwai

1967

34,78 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1967
Luogo di stampa
London. Secker & Warburg
Autore
Boulle, Pierre
Edizione
First edition in English, translated from the French.
Soggetto
Travel - Asia
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

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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