Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island (Twentieth Century Lives)
by James Hamilton-Paterson
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Author: James Hamilton-PatersonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-25
ISBN: 0941533824
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
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Book Review: Paterson shares his insights about diving for a living
Summary: 5 Stars
Paterson is living on a small island in the Philippines and he is joining the natives in diving (i.e. fishing) for a living. We scuba-divers, as we only come for 1-2 week vacations, often are not experiencing the reality around our dive sites. Paterson's book was helping me understanding more of the countries I was visiting. Very instructive are his personal insights about ecology in a third world country and the connections to the economical and social structure. I found it very valuable that the insights do not follow the well known beaten paths about the third world but are rather well founded, personal observations. This makes this book a much more interesting read than any other book about the subject that I have ever read before.
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A wonderful inner journey in the outer light and color of a remote coast, uncommonly well written. --Peter MatthiessenAsia Books
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