Vietnam is a country whose image still evokes scenes of war, so it is
refreshing to read Zoe Schramm-Evans’s civilian and modern account of her
travels there. In A Phoenix Rising: Impressions of Vietnam (Pandora,
£7.99, ISBN 0 04 440965 6), she proves an observant and perceptive
traveller but, unfortunately, not a great writer.
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