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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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BOOK REVIEWS
AN EYE FOR THE DRAGON: by
Dennis Bloodworth, 356 pp., Don
Mills, Seeker and Warburg, $11.95
by Tom Oleson
Dennis Bloodworth has been the
Far East correspondent of the London
Observer since 1956. His nows reports
are among the finest coming out of
that complex area and anyone who
reads Mr. Bloodwor-th’s first book,
Chinese Looking Glass, or this current
one, will understand why this is so.
Married to a Chinese wife and hav-
ing spent 14 years in Asia, Mr. Blood-
worth understands the Oriental world-
view as few other Westerners can hope
to do. Chinese Looking Glass offered
the reader a glimpse into Chinese hi-
story and society, and the Chinese
mind, that enabled the less-devoted
China-watcher to make a little more
sense of the often seemingly inexplic-
able doings of Peking.
In an Eye for the Dragon, Mr. Blood-
worth has turned his talents to the
nations of South-east Asia: the lips to
the Chinese teeth. He roams with ap-
parent ease through thousands of years
of history and thousands of miles of
geography. From Burma to the Philip
pines, from Hanoi to Jakarta, the
author has brought together a thous-
and anecdotes, a thousand insights, a
thousand . . .
Every anecdote, every insight, every
personal meeting is fascinating in it-
self but, after a heavy session of read-
ing, the mind begins to reel, the pages
blur iand the eye that should be cast
alertly on the Chinese dragon glazes.
It is definitely not a book to be read
at one sitting.
With this one reservation, the book
comes highly recommended. If proper-
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