Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Chuck for the info. This sounds like my kind of adventure book. I'll check it out. Dan K. >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. >> > > >