The great hill stations of Asia / Barbara Crossette.

Main entry:

Crossette, Barbara.

Title & Author:

The great hill stations of Asia / Barbara Crossette.

Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.

Description:

vii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index.
1. How It All Began -- 2. The Hills of Pakistan -- 3. An Indian Sextet -- 4. Sri Lanka's Tea Country -- 5. Forgotten Burma -- 6. A Malaysian Mix -- 7. Dutch Indonesia -- 8. Rebirth in Vietnam -- 9. Philippine Americana.
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Summary:

For the European and later the American colonial soldier, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant, the missionary, and the families who followed them east of Suez, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a battle for survival against sunstroke, dysentery, cholera, and malaria as well as little-examined indispositions that in hindsight would probably be diagnosed as clinical symptoms of depression. Later, medical scholars coined a phrase for it: "tropical fatigue." They called the refuges they created - little European towns carved from rocky mountainsides or nestled in the meadows of high plateaus - "hill stations." Colonialism came and went, but the hill stations remain. They are no longer European, but most have not lost their unique appeal. After all, the plains still fry in the sun and the cities of Asia have only grown larger, noisier, and more polluted. New generations of Asians are rediscovering hill stations and turning them into tourist resorts with luxury hotels and courses. Hill stations still cling to their history, and the story they tell reveals a lot about how colonial life was lived. They also have a future, if environmental damage and overpopulation do not destroy the forested hills and mountains that give them their spectacular settings and pleasant climates. In early 1997, Barbara Crossette set off on a journey of several months to see Asia anew through its great hill stations, moving from mountain to mountain from Pakistan, across India, to Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

Resources:
Booknotes episode and transcript
Program air date: August 23, 1998
Publisher description

ISBN:

0813333261 (alk. paper)
9780813333267 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Hill stations Asia.
Mountain resorts Asia.
Stations de montagne Asie.
Hill stations
Mountain resorts
Travel
Asia Description and travel.
Asie Descriptions et voyages.
Asia

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Culture, values & religion (Booknotes)
History (Booknotes)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 176745
Call No.: DS10.C7 1998
Status: Available

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