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EAN : 9782259205986
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 168
Size : 132 x 201 mm
Forgotten

Release date : 11/01/2007

A man's search for his father, and for an ancient civilisation, now extinct, in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle.

Claude Mader is the abandoned son of a French Legionnaire and his “congai”, his tonkinese companion. His assignment on a scientific mission to Vietnam provides a long-awaited chance to search...

A man's search for his father, and for an ancient civilisation, now extinct, in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle.

Claude Mader is the abandoned son of a French Legionnaire and his “congai”, his tonkinese companion. His assignment on a scientific mission to Vietnam provides a long-awaited chance to search for his father, the sole trace of whom is a snapshot taken at the foot of a temple that no longer exists. So he treks off into the dark of the jungle, his task to chart the boundaries of the mysterious Champa empire that reached its splendid apogee in the 9th century. Day by day, he falls more deeply under the spell of a country he senses is part of his own personal history, knowing full well that, at the same time, he is risking his life. From the back streets of Saigon to the humid jungle of the high plateau of Vietnam, this quest of a dual nature draws the reader into an extraordinary journey set in the shadowy world of illegal trafficking in wild animals.

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EAN : 9782259205986
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 168
Size : 132 x 201 mm
Plon