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  Down The Rat Hole:
Adventures Underground on the Burma Frontier
by Edith Mirante
2005. 192 pp., 3 colour plates, 3 maps, 21.5 x 15 cm., softcover.

ISBN-10: 974-524-050-8 $21.00
ISBN-13: 978-974-524-050-6


A new memoir of the author’s journeys among the brave indigenous peoples of some of Asia’s most remote and violent regions. Knowledgeably obsessed with Burma’s struggle for freedom, American artist/activist Mirante breaks laws and infiltrates borders, in impassioned journeys of discovery that take her through China, India, Laos, and chaotic Bangladesh. Down the Rat Hole is a wild and exotic headlong plunge into a hidden world of guerrilla warfare, heroin and jade trading, the AIDS pandemic, rainforest destruction, strikes and rioting, and one of the worst natural disasters of the 20th Century.

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