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旅行記者大衛．艾默進入緬甸的中心地帶，探索緬甸之美，將許多少見的美景都帶到讀者眼前。
大衛‧艾默曾任《週日電報》的北京特派員，探險中國之後，下一個目的地緬甸在長達50年間都受到當地軍政府的掌控，和外界脫離，2015年翁山蘇姬接管政府，原本應該開始欣欣向榮的緬甸卻依舊難以參透。
艾默走訪這個神祕的國度，不願這個國家的歷史就這樣被世界排除在外，他從熱帶的南方走到喜馬拉雅山下的北方國土，在這裡蓋廟比基礎建設來得重要，到處都是算命師，還有自戰地開發出來的高爾夫球場。
艾默的經驗老道帶讀者透過旅行間的書寫，揭開了緬甸的面紗，個人觀察加上當地的故事，緬甸的美麗就讓艾默給你娓娓道來，這將是成為旅行文學經典的作品。
For almost fifty years Burma was ruled by a paranoid military dictatorship and isolated from the outside world. A historic 2015 election swept an Aung San Suu Kyi-led civilian government to power and was supposed to usher in a new golden era of democracy and progress, but Burma remains unstable and undeveloped, a little-understood country. Nothing is straightforward in this captivating land that is home to a combustible mix of races, religions and resources. A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma reveals a country where temples take priority over infrastructure, fortune tellers thrive and golf courses are carved out of war zones. Setting out from Yangon, the old capital, David Eimer travels throughout this enigmatic nation, from the tropical south to the Burmese Himalayas in the far north, via the Buddhist-centric heartland and the jungles and mountains where rebel armies fight for autonomy in the longest-running civil wars in recent history. The story of modern Burma is told through the voices of the people Eimer encounters along the way: former political exiles, the squatters in Yangon's shanty towns, radical monks, Rohingya refugees, princesses and warlords, and the ethnic minorities clustered along the country's frontiers. Layers of history are unfurled and innumerable stories are woven together to create a sensitive and revelatory portrait of this most mysterious of countries. Authoritative and ground-breaking, A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma is set to be a modern classic of travel writing.
