Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in Upper, Midd...
Raquez, Alfred / Gibson, William L. / Gibson, William L.![Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in Upper, Middle and Lower Laos](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/289/28972547/CHSBZCOP0328972547.jpg)
Laos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ancient pastoral existence and the modern machine age. Alfred Raquez's Laotian Pages vividly describes his exploration of the diverse kingdoms of Laos at the turn of the last century with the same Parisian verve and ironic turn of mind that he brought to his first travel book, In the Land of Pagodas...