Swain arrives in Indo-China in his early 20's, at an age not much older than the average American soldier after being posted to Vietnam. River of Time is a beautifully written memoir by an English journalist living in the lands of the Mekong during the wars in Indo-China in /5. River of time by Jon Swain. Publication date Topics Swain, Jon -- Travel -- Indochina, Indochina -- Description and travel, Cambodia -- History -- Civil War, , Vietnam -- History -- , Indochina -- History -- Publisher St. Martin's Press CollectionUser Interaction Count: River of Time is an account of the horror and romance of Indochina in the s, as experienced by a British war correspondent.. Swain describes his experiences in Cambodia under Lon Nol, in Saigon after the American withdrawal, during the fall of Phnom Penh, on a visit to post-war Hanoi, and in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge.
River of Time (Michael Martin Murphey album) (), or the title track; The River of Time, a story collection by David Brin "River of Time" (Legends of Tomorrow), an episode of Legends of Tomorrow; River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam, a book by Jon Swain; See also. Rivers of Time, a collection of short stories by L. Sprague de Camp. But Swain was in his mid-twenties, idealistic and adventurous, and now 20 years on from the downfall of Phnom Penh, "River of Time" is Swain's catharsis. It was sad to read of his return to Vietnam and Cambodia, and his realisation just how much had changed since the transition of these countries to communism, and just how much had been lost. River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia Jon Swain Berkley pp. $ Does Jon Swain have a death wish, or an impulse to live life so fully that he'll risk his neck for the merry hell of it?After reading River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia, the Englishman's account of his life as a foreign correspondent during the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam, you have to wonder.
Jon Swain. River of Time is an account of the horror and romance of Indochina in the s, as experienced by a British war correspondent. Swain describes his experiences in Cambodia under Lon Nol, in Saigon after the American withdrawal, during the fall of Phnom Penh, on a visit to post-war Hanoi, and in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge. There is also an account of his capture and captivity in Ethiopia and a look at the fate of Vietnamese boat people at the hands of pirates. River of time by Jon Swain. Publication date Topics Swain, Jon -- Travel -- Indochina, Indochina -- Description and travel. River of Time is both an eye-witness account of painful and often sickening events, and an almost poetic meditation on the mysterious appeal of war and death His book is unsparingly honest, a brilliant and unsettling examination of the age-old bonds between death, beauty, violence and the imagination, which came together in Vietnam as nowhere else.".
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