Thant Myint-U
Faber and Faber,
358 pages, `699
The civilisations of China and India have always been walled off from each other by the towering Himalayas, vast and impenetrable jungle, hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms. In the next few years, this last great frontier will likely vanish—its forests destroyed and its dirt roads replaced by superhighways—giving rise to the strategic centrality of Burma. Part travelogue, part history, part investigation, this book takes us across the rapidly-changing Asian frontier.