Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal

Karen Connelly
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Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction"Painfully bored" with school, 17-year-old Karen Connelly set off for rural Thailand to spend one year as an exchange student. This is her intensely honest account of living in a beautiful but sometimes infuriating culture."I already look forward to reading Touch the Dragon again--and again."--Timothy Findley
Genres: TravelNonfictionMemoirAsiaBiographyCanadaAutobiographyCanadian Literature
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