Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth - Hardcover

Cross, Mary; FitzGerald, Frances

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821227424 ISBN 13: 9780821227428

Publisher: Bulfinch, 2001

Synopsis

Combines photography with the writings of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author to create a portrait of contemporary Vietnam healed from the war and replete with lush landscapes, customs, villages, traditions, and cities.

About this title

About the Author:

Frances FitzGerald is author of the award-winning bestseller, Fire in the Lake as well as America Revised, Cities on a Hill, and Way Out There in the Blue. Mary Cross, photojournalist and portrait photographer, is the author of Behind the Great Wall and Morocco.

From Booklist:

Veteran Vietnam correspondent FitzGerald and well-traveled photojournalist Mary Cross explored Vietnam together in the spring of 2000, each using their craft to document the experience. "What struck me, after my long absence," writes FitzGerald, "was not so much how the country had changed but the extent to which it had returned to itself." Accordingly, for a readership that likely has seen only wartime images of Vietnam, she revisits a great deal of the country's history as she explores geography, society, and religion in a half-dozen essays. These informative, stimulating passages draw a picture, and Cross' photos snap it into color, as she eschews landscape and architecture to focus on Vietnam's people and their way of life. The National Geographic-style compositions bring us fairly close to her subjects but have a reserve or formality that slows their pulse. Still, though there is no formal connection between the text and images, they work well together, providing a unique portrait of this complex land, one that is "going back to tradition and forward at the same time." Keir Graff
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bulfinch
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0821227424
• ISBN 13: 9780821227428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204