Three Moons in Vietnam: A Haphazard Journey by Boat and Bicycle

by Maria Coffey

Book Overview

In 1944, Maria Coffery and her husband, travelled the length of the Vietnam coastline by sampan, a traditional hand-crafted boat, and this book tells of their journey. Starting from the south, a few miles from Ho Chi Minh city in the Mekong Delta, they sailed through Halong Bay and headed into the Red River Delta, to the end their journey at the capital city of Hanoi. En route they made many excursions to well known sites, but the real focus of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0349107386
• ISBN13: 9780349107387
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Abacus (UK)
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Three moons in VietNam, not just a tourist guide.

Hello, my name is LinhVu.I am deeply touched by The Three Moons in Vietnam. For me, it's not just a guide book for tourists, but a very profound story about my country which I left in 1980 and never return back. Throughout the book, I can revisit my beautiful country, its culture in its very essence and see how my people survive after so many terrible years in the last half of the century. I refound the pictures of my friends, of my family and sometimes a reflection of myself, imagining each ancient city where I had lived, each dirty road I had passed by, each beautiful resorts I have stayed and especially, people that I always had in my mind. I read the book with tears in my eyes and of course, laughs too. I really love the simple style, the sweet heart of the author, her sincerity and especially the humour she patched up now and then into the stories. It's ashame that a native Vietnamien like me still don't have enough detailed knowledges about my country,its history, its marvellous landscape and its people til I read this book. Even there are not much, those details of history surprise me a lot throughout the book and make me very happy. Strongly recommend not just for tourists, but for all Vietnameses who still have a heart for their country too.Linh Vu

A fun and descriptive look at life in Vietnam

I read this book before I took my first trip to Vietnam in 1997 and I have to say that Maria Coffey does an amazing job of describing what life is really like not only in the cities but in the rural areas of Vietnam. I would reccomend this book to anyone who has an interest in Vietnam's people and their way of life. Coffey's account of her trip with her husband is so amazingly well written that the reader really gets to take the trip with her. Three Moons in Vietnam is a book you will laugh and cry with but most of all it will give you a new perspective of a country and the lifestyle of it's people that is misunderstood by many.