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Five Asian pieces, four from Kalimantan, Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, and one column piece from Samarinda, in one volume. 1. His Brow in Feathers, the Dyak Chieftain and his Equation for the Order of Time. A Festival of Redemption, led by the Chief of the People Benuaq, Dyaks of the Central Lakes, Borneo. His lake was once a mountain, which inverted its form in an act of compassion for people who were without fishing grounds. The people are grateful....
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The Personality of War - A volume comprising five pieces. Dresden. Now an old man, a onetime Air Force flyer recalls his time in the night sky during the bombing of Dresden. For the incineration of a hundred and forty thousand souls, if things went right, for the destruction of a graceful city, of its old walls and obedient gardens, they flew east. He was the navigator. Rehearsals for the Death of Taipei. One day every year Taiwan practiced its defenses...
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Three Revolutions in the Equatorial Americas. A volume of three feature pieces treating revolutions in each of Panama, Nicaragua and the building of tensions in Haiti. 1. In Panama, a Pantomime. Billed as support for a rebellion against General Noriega, the US invaded Panama for Christmas 1989. A year later Western expatriates in their clubs and enclaves were still divided. GENERAL NORIEGA'S portrait stood on the hotel bar, his cap crusted with laurels,...
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In Rage, Rebellion - A volume comprising three feature pieces: 1. Backstage at the Revolution. While the African National Congress was a banned organization in South Africa, and the white minority ruled with gunfire, the ANC theatre troupe Amandla toured the world. Amandla is Power. Every performer is a trained soldier and musician, dancer. Here is their tour of Australia. Beginning in darkness, the Overture is unlike any music theatergoers have heard...
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Islanders, Far South - Three feature pieces and one column piece in one volume, events in the lives of southern fishing communities in Tasmania. 1. Pride of the Crayfish Fleet. Life in the Bass Strait Islands, out of the Port of Lady Barron. THE CRAYFISH I HOLD in my hand is forty years old. By whatever system of temporal measurement crayfish use, it is a very old man. In a few weeks its tail will be sliced into the white discs restaurateurs like...
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