TY  - BOOK
AU  - James Hamilton-Paterson
TI  - Playing With Water
SN  - 9780941533829
AV  - DS660 
U1  - 959.9046 
PB  - New Amsterdam Books
KW  - History - Asia
N2  - James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he does. Beyond that, it gives an account of life in that class-bound country as a whole. For it is in places like this rather than Manila of the international news reports that the underlying political and cultural reality of the Philippines may be seen
ER  -