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On the shadow tracks : a journey through occupied Myanmar

Hammond, Clare, author

Overview

In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and breadth of the country - railways not shown on any other publicly available maps. She was determined to uncover the railways' origins, purpose, and most of all, the silence that surrounded them. She would spend three months travelling on these mysterious railways, and the next five years piecing their story together. Her journey would take her from Myanmar's tropical south to the embattled mountain towns that border India and China. In dilapidated carriages, along tracks in disrepair, through contested ethnic states and former sites of forced labour, visiting temples, tea shops and festivals, Clare encountered a colourful and contradictory Myanmar through the stories of its people.

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Subject: Hammond, Clare Travel Burma. / Railroads Burma. / Travel and Tourism. / Burma Description and travel. / Burma Social conditions 21st century.
• ISBN: 9780241623893

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