An Eye for the Dragon. South-East Asia Observed 1954-73

Dennis Bloodworth has been Far Eastern correspondent of the Observer for the last sixteen years. With the journalist’s eye and the historian’s sense of values, he records the painful — but galvanizing — impact of the twentieth century on the ancient and traditional societies of South-East Asia.

Writing with a deep knowledge of this vast region, with its welter of races, religions, customs and animosities, he tells of Indonesia under Sukarno, of Prince Sihanouk, ex-Head of State in Cambodia, of what American intervention has meant to the Vietnamese peasant, and of the very peculiar form of democracy practised in the Philippines.

‘A briltiant writer's story of his many missions and his many personal adventures in a part of the world few readers know save on the map’ - Birmingham Post