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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dangerous because the military regime which rules Burma has discovered a new source of money: selling the beauty of the Burmese people and their land to foreign tourists. So far, the editors of the Harvard travel series Let's Go! have been unseduced and have refused to feature a Let's Go! guide to Burma. Next year, however, they plan to write one. A Let's Go Myanmar! guidebook would play directly into the hands of Burma's despots. The guide would help the regime exploit Burma's charm for its own ends...
...Kraus wants to provide your horoscope. And your mutual fund's bottom line. And your E-mail and your headline news. And your groceries, your travel plans, your greeting cards, your sports scores, your local weather, your TV listings, your friends...
...made channels that project two cascading spouts of cool, clear water. Above, a young couple claims rights to the day's first ascent of the terraced ruins. For a moment I imagine what it might have been like to live under the Incan lords. Later my guide and I travel up a dirt track through a side valley to Huitoc, a tiny village even further dwarfed by the mountains than Ollantaytambo. The men of Huitoc take turns serving as porters along the nearby Inca Trail, sprinting on rubber-tire sandals or ragged sneakers past winded trekkers while carrying huge boxes...
South Africa's break from its apartheid past has not only opened the doors to world recognition; it has also put the country firmly on the international travel map. Newly plunged into global markets, the Cape wine industry has expanded its traditional, highly regulated, conservative marketing base and drawn in Germans, French, Swiss, Italians. Russians and Californians as investors in South African grapes. Some of the leading Cape estates now boast European winemakers; Zelma Long and Phil Freese, well known in Sonoma, Calif., are in a joint vineyard venture with Michael Back, owner of Backsberg, a top South African estate...
Furious yet helpless, Lidie decides to cut her hair, disguise herself as a boy, and travel to Missouri to find Thomas' murderers. Despite the incredible danger she knows she is getting into, her good sense always keeps the upper hand. "Sentiment was a deadly thing in K.T.," she explains to the reader. "Folks back in the U.S. didn't know that about K.T., did they?" The adventures that follow, including an attempted escape north with a woman in slavery, are told with such honest simplicity that to try and recount them here would be to extinguish the spark they carry...