Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan, If you haven't read it already, find a copy of "Land of Jade" by Bertil Lintner. It's an account of an 18-month trip, most of it on foot, from Nagaland (in India), across northern Burma, and into Thailand from 1985 to 1987. He and his wife (who took most of the photographs while also carrying their daughter, who was born at the beginning of the trip) encountered nearly all of the ethnic communities that inhabit the area, as well as the various insurgent groups that are still fighting in the border areas. I have the first edition that was published in the late 80's, although I understand a revised second edition came out in 1996. Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. > Friends > > I have just returned from a photo shoot up in the hills of north Thailand. > The Karen people, whom I photographed, are the largest tribal group of hill > people living in Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Thailand. The various hill > tribes are effectively spread out over a large area in these countries and > they live side by side with one another. One would not be surprised to find > a Hmong village just a walking distance from a Karen village. They speak > different languages and have different costumes. Otherwise they can look > similar. >