by Rory MacLean · Alba Editorial S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484281290
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«Bajo el dragón» is Rory MacLean's travelogue through Burma, published by Alba Editorial in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
After passing through Burma in 1988, Rory MacLean returns in 1998 and travels from Rangoon to the Golden Triangle. Following a piece of local handicraft, he approaches the heroin economy and child prostitution, and talks with censors, lovers of Chinese lyric poetry, and Aung San Suu Kyi, portraying a beautiful country under a corrupt system.
The translation is by Ángela Pérez. The original English, Under the Dragon: Travels in a Betrayed Land, was published in 1998. The book belongs to the Trayectos collection of Alba Editorial.
For readers of travel books interested in the recent history and political reality of Burma.
