Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution State Repression Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness

Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness

First published in 1999

This remarkable story of a young woman's courage and daring at a time of increasing repression in apartheid South Africa is told here for the first time with great verve and élan by Eleanor's husband

it is a brilliant examination of the role of violence in affecting historical change

Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure and a Jungle Revolution State Repression Strangers In A Tangled Wildernessby Edith T. Mirante Atlantic Monthly Press 1993 SKU: 9780871135704 The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to Burma's imprisoned opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, focused world attention on a land in chains. Burma, a Southeast Asian nation the size of France, has been isolated by decades of brutal dictatorship. Few outsiders penetrate Burma's remote mountains, where rebels, opium warlords, and jade smugglers hold sway. Edith Mirante, an American