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Off the Rails in Phnom Penh

Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls, and Ganja

By Amit Gilboa

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| Paperback | 9789748303345

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Phnom Penh is a city of beauty and degradation, tranquillity and violence, and tradition and transformation; a city of temples and brothels, music and gunfire, and festivals and coups.

But for many, it is simply an anarchic celebration of insanity and indulgence. Whether it is the $2 wooden shacContinue

Phnom Penh is a city of beauty and degradation, tranquillity and violence, and tradition and transformation; a city of temples and brothels, music and gunfire, and festivals and coups.

But for many, it is simply an anarchic celebration of insanity and indulgence. Whether it is the $2 wooden shack brothels, the marijuana-pizza restaurants, the AK-47 fireworks displays, or the intricate brutality of Cambodian politics, Phnom Penh never ceases to amaze and amuse. For an individual coming from a modern Western society, it is a place where the immoral becomes acceptable and the insane becomes normal.

Amid this chaos lives an extraordinary group of foreign residents. Some are adventurers whose passion for life is given free rein in this unrestrained madhouse. Others are misfits who, unable to make it anywhere else, wallow in the decadent and inviting environment. This unparalleled first-hand account provides a fascinating, shocking, disturbing and often hilarious picture of contemporary Phnom Penh and the bizarre collection of expats who make it their home. As they search for love in the brothels or adventure on the firing range, Phnom Penh Journey follows them into the dark heart of guns, girls and ganja.

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  • Probaly not a great author, but a very good observer. The book is perfect, very well documented, phenomenal, disturbing,sometimes even funny. An almost uniqe source of information about one of the most misterious towns in Asia. It catches a multilevel secret town and describes its worst sides with ... (continue)

    Probaly not a great author, but a very good observer. The book is perfect, very well documented, phenomenal, disturbing,sometimes even funny. An almost uniqe source of information about one of the most misterious towns in Asia. It catches a multilevel secret town and describes its worst sides with unpityful eyes. Very good

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 206 Pages
  • Edition: 5th Rep
  • ISBN-10: 9748303349
  • ISBN-13: 9789748303345
  • Publisher: Asia Books
  • Pub date: Jul 25, 1998
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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