Saigon: Mistress of the Mekong

by Anastasia Edwards

The seventy-some extracts in this anthology tell the story of Saigon's expansion from a village in a forest, via its colonization by the French and occupation by the Americans, to the fiercely Vietnamese city it is today. Among the authors represented are Graham Greene, John Pilger, Colin Thubron, Somerset Maugham, and Osbert Sitwell.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195906020
• ISBN13: 9780195906028
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"