{"product_id":"9781934431825","title":"King Cobra: Mekong Adventures in French Indochina","description":"Harry Hervey's lush account takes us on a quest for a lost Khmer temple in 1925 French Indochina. Three stories march side-by-side to the measure of his cadenced prose: the impact of French colonialism on the Far East; the tale of the glorious Khmer civilization; and the sensual, barbaric lives of the region's people in another era.\u003cp\u003eRenowned travel writer Pico Iyer opens with a provocative foreword, then we join Hervey on his trek, now lavishly illustrated with 140 vintage Indochina images by the author and from historian Joel Montague.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis expanded edition features an extensive author profile: Harry Hervey: The Charmer Behind the Cobra, by biographer Harlan Greene; a bibliography; anthropologist Margaret Mead's 1928 review; and Hervey's gruesome essay inspired by his Indochina voyage, The Lover of Madame Guillotine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"King Cobra imparts all the tremendous excitement of coming upon a hidden treasure in the jungles of Indochina. Once I began to surrender to Hervey's spell, I started-as, perhaps, he did-to lose all sense of where fact ended and fiction began.\"\u003cbr\u003ePICO IYER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hervey sees the jungle one moment as a vindictive monster, the next as an annihilating river beneath which a whole civilization drowns.\" \u003cbr\u003eMARGARET MEAD-1928\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gripping biography of that tawny courtesan Indochina-from her early amour with a race from India, to her present liaison with France....\"\u003cbr\u003eBOOK JACKET-1927\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DatASIA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047806386416,"sku":"9781934431825","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934431825_p0.jpg?v=1763642539","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934431825","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}