http://travelhappy.info/myanmar-burma/travelling-through-myanmar-planning-my-trip/ Backpacking and Travel in Thailand and South East Asia Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://travelhappy.info/myanmar-burma/travelling-through-myanmar-planning-my-trip/#comment-18840 Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar : Book Review · Thailand Backpacking: Travelhappy.info Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:53:40 +0000 http://travelhappy.info/myanmar-burma/travelling-through-myanmar-planning-my-trip/#comment-18840 [...] As I’m travelling to Myanmar myself soon, I found Peter Olszewski’s Land Of A Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures Of Everyday Life In Myanmar a fascinating introduction to everyday life within the country. Most books about Myanmar focus on listing the Myanmar military junta’s atrocities against its own people. Peter Olszewski instead simply documents his life and exploration of Myanmar during the year he spent in the country. This is not to say that Olszewski does not understand or appreciate the nature of the regime - but he does recognise that many other books have documented and continue to document Myanmar’s political nightmare and that, crucially, the people of Myanmar should not be confused with their government. Therefore this is a book that simply talks about the people Olszewski encountered while living in Yangon, working as a trainer of journalists on a local newspaper. [...] [...] As I’m travelling to Myanmar myself soon, I found Peter Olszewski’s Land Of A Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures Of Everyday Life In Myanmar a fascinating introduction to everyday life within the country. Most books about Myanmar focus on listing the Myanmar military junta’s atrocities against its own people. Peter Olszewski instead simply documents his life and exploration of Myanmar during the year he spent in the country. This is not to say that Olszewski does not understand or appreciate the nature of the regime - but he does recognise that many other books have documented and continue to document Myanmar’s political nightmare and that, crucially, the people of Myanmar should not be confused with their government. Therefore this is a book that simply talks about the people Olszewski encountered while living in Yangon, working as a trainer of journalists on a local newspaper. [...]

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