I first saw a picture of Angkor Wat in the atlas I got for my 10th birthday in 1975. I gazed at the city of temples for hours. Was it growing out of the jungle, or was the jungle growing over it? How could I get there from the Florida mangroves? What would I know…
Tag: Nancy Stearns Bercaw
Hello & Goodbye, Chungking Mansions
Always heed the words of the Pakistani man who owns one of the guesthouses on the 17th floor of the Chungking Mansions. In fact, you should follow the orders of every single guesthouse owner in Hong Kong’s most notorious ghetto-ized high-rise. There is no room for taking liberties here because the survival of whole construct…