Mysterious, Exotic, and Remote
Mintz, Jeanne S. "Mysterious, Exotic, and Remote". Saturday Review. New York. pp. 35–36.
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Abstract: Despite the increased number of American tourists in Asia and the tens of thousands of American officials—quiet, noisy, ugly, and beautiful—who have served there over the past decade, the countries and peoples of that part of the world still remain for most Americans mys terious, exotic, and remote. Now we have four new books, three on South east Asia, one on the Southwest Pa cific, which help to make these fasof international crises erupting in fascinating parts of the East a little less lands which few Americans know inscrutable. exist. Oden Meeker's "The Little
The sloe-eyed world of Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific provides the set for "Paradise in Trust," by Robert Trumbull (Shane. 222 pp. $3.50), The Little World of Laos," by Oden Meeker (Scribners. 256 pp. $4.50), "The Sawbwa and His Secretary: My Burmese Reminiscences," by C. Y. Lee (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. 245 pp. $3.75), and "Flowering Lotus: A View of Java," by Harold Forster (Longmans, Green. 281 pp. $5.75). Jeanne S. Mintz, who appraises their value, is a specialist on South east Asian affairs and currently program director of the Asia Society.
