Full name: A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

Author: Norman Lewis Year: 1951 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780907871330 090787133X

Originally published in 1951, it is said that A Dragon Apparent inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam and write The Quiet American. Norman Lewis traveled in Indo-China during the precarious last years of the French colonial regime. Much of the charm and grandeur of the ancient native civilizations survived until the devastation of the Vietnam War. Lewis could still meet a King of Cambodia and an Emperor of Vietnam; in the hills he could stay in the spectacular longhouses of the highlanders; on the plains he could be enchanted by a people whom he found "gentle, tolerant and dedicated to the pleasures and satisfactions of a discriminating kind." Similar books: Golden Earth by Norman Lewis A Goddess in the Stones by Norman Lewis In Sicily by Norman Lewis Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed by Andrew Doughty Around the World in 60 Seconds by Nuseir Yassin 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz Unfathomable City by Rebecca Solnit Hillerman Country by Tony Hillerman The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux The Lost Amazon by Wade Davis Journey through Britain by John Hillaby In Asia by Tiziano Terzani Full Circle by Michael Palin The World At Large by Adam E. Mehaffey Hunting Mister Heartbreak by Jonathan Raban Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier by Terry Darlington Hidden Mickeys by Steven Barrett Lonely Planet Italy by Damien Simonis The Best Women's Travel Writing: 2011 by Lavinia Spalding