Chew the Bones: Maddog Essays on Philippine History - Softcover

Couttie, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442142596 ISBN 13: 9781442142596

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009

Synopsis

Take a time-travelling journey of a thousand years of adventure and romance as you explore the unknown highways, byways and strange ways of an lmost forgotten world. Dip into a unique, ye-opening collection of true stories they didn't tell you at school. In this world slaves get benefits worthy of a corporate highflier. A redhaired hard-to-handle Hong Kong-born Irish teenager marries a man determined to change his country's destiny. England's Queen Victoria is given the world's most expensive wedding dress, made by Filipinos. The last cavalry charge in American history begins with a hangover as the first Japanese bombs drop on the Philippines. A Scots-American widow find a new purpose protecting and building lives for the indigenous Aeta people of the Zambales Mountains.

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About the Author

Bob Couttie is a screenwriter, historian who has lived in the Philippines for more than 20 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1442142596
• ISBN 13: 9781442142596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126