The Black Swan
A child sets out on a spiritual odyssey, his conscience his only compass. On the way into the unknown, he encounters people from all walks of life: each on his own quest; each seeking answers to question that have been asked from time immemorial. With the plight of homeless Cambodian children and the fate of there turbulent country as the backdrop, this illustrated little book is a treatise on human nature, religious beliefs and ideologies. Full of allusions and ironies, it doesn’t seek to enlighten anyone It simply deals one’s norms and values a knockout.
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ISBN: 974-202-049-3
 
     
 
Boy, Doc and the Green Man
What Anthony Aikman had seen and been involved at first hand as a medical volunteer in a remote part of North Sumatra, Indonesia, is translated into this moving story that epitomizes the recurring conflict between age-old rural community life and the demands of modern society. The book graphically describes how the traditional way of life in a small village of farmers and fisherman is destroyed when they are forced off their land to make way for “development”
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ISBN: 974-228-006-1
 
     
 

One of the hopes of these books is to raise money for charities involved in helping children who, through no-fault of their own, are Victims of poverty, war, persecution and sickness.

All royalties will go to The Center for the Protection of Children's Rights Foundation, an affiliate of the Foundation for Children 185/16 Charansanitwong 12 Rd, Tha Phra District, Bangkok Yai, Bangkok 10600, Thailand Tel: (662) 412-1196, 412-0739, 864-1421 Fax: (662) 412-9833
email: cpcr@intermetksc.th.com

Readers are also invited to make a small contribution. Those living overseas will have similar charities they can help, including The Tibet Society & Tibet Relief Fund, Tower House, 149 Fonthill Road, London N4 3HF, U.K.
Tel: 020 7272 1414 Fax: 020 7272 1410
email: members@ tibet-society.org.uk
website: www.tibet-society.org.uk, which helps the support and education of Tibetan refugee children.

 
     
 
Jim Tully
Jim Tully is a misfit who belongs to an earlier era. The causes he believes in, like the world he wants In live In, ate already doomed. The narrator first meets him during a student riot In Paris Is and finds him again more than twenty years later In Thailand. In between Tully has drifted around Oil- -aid, tossed from one noble cause to another, e I n being imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge. In Bangkok, writing a book his friends fear reveals too many secrets, in is persuaded to work for an American movie mogul. To Tully's disgust His screenplay about anew Genesis is Cut dud manipulated into a nature romp in the jungle. When a sequel called Genocide is planned, Tully quits. Soon after, the tycoon Is found murdered. Tully vanishes, only to become involved in the search in Cambodia for MiAs-American prisoners of war who have been missing since the end of the Vietnam war When this venture is exposed as a scam, Tully retreats into the jungle, subsequently finding a new cause helping the Karen in their fight for independence from the tyrannical Burmese government. He finally reappears in Bangkok during the bloody democracy riots in 1992, only to be among the many listed as missing. Intact he has returned to Cambodia, where the United Nations peacekeeping mission assign him to an outpost far up the Mekong River and to an uncertain welcome from his old adversaries - the Khmer Roung.
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ISBN: 974-8494-46-5
 
     
 
The Farang
He grew up In an English seacoast village, filled with visions of honor and duty, which when put to the test in Africa, he fails to live up to. Publicity magnifies and maligns the issue. Unable to return home, he moves on. But each fresh start seems thwarted by ghosts from the past. A shipping disaster seals his fate in the Philippines. He escapes to Thailand. Seeking solace in the streets of Patpong and Pattaya. A solace which turns to despair as he feels a trap snapping shut his senses his free will. He seeks refuge down the coast: a native hut; a pretty Chinese girl; an old boat; but Toy, Ins Pattaya girl, finds out and upsets his plans. His dreams shattered, he creates a spiteful revenge and flees in his boat, ending up on a mountainous island off Cambodia. Mere his simple fisherman’s life is rudely interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a fanner friend turned enemy. Fuelled by the arrival of Toy. His sense of reason turns to blind rage and he sets out on a trail of destruction with inevitable tragic results.
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ISBN: 0-73-01654-0
 
     
 
The Eye of Itza
Deep in the jungles of Central America, beneath the ruins of a Maya city lies the hideous statue of the god ltza. The quest to find the precious jade mask of the god is vigorously pursued by Willis, an ex-undercover agent, whose obsession assumes sinister overtones as the mask begins to exert an evil influence over him. Also involved in the search are Boyet Rhodes, an English mercenary and old adversary of Willis, and Ko Sam, his beautiful Cambodian stepdaughter. The quest turns into a desperate chase as it becomes obvious that outside forces are also implicated. Dodging rebel attacks, landslips, bandits and cocaine smugglers, Willis and Rhodes travel south along the High Andes into the heart of the ancient Inca Empire. After being hunted to exhaustion, the treasure seekers escape by raft down treacherous Amazon headwaters, drawn irresistibly towards the jungle homeland of the last savage tribe on earth that still worship ltza as their God.
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ISBN: 0709027508
 
     
 
Treehouses
Treehouses have always held a special place in the British imagination. This richly illustrated and entertaining guide will enchant readers with its stories of treehouses and their builders past and present throughout the world. The most extraordinary buildings have been erected in trees: pubs, churches even a railway station! The author has himself lived in treehouses. A forestry officer, he has built treehouses in places as far apart as the Solomon Islands and over. His advice on designing and constructing treehouses is thus founded on real practical experience. Treehouscs have often provided a retreat for those seeking to escape from affairs of state. Churchill built his children a secret house in a tree at chartwell. Elizabeth II was proclaimed Queen in a treehouses in Kenya, Victoria spent a happy holiday sketching in a Tudor tree folly at Pitchfork Hall. The first Elizabeth and the debauched Roman Emperor Caligula alike held riotous banquets in treehouses. Anthony Aikman reveals the pleasures of treehouses in history and literature. Local legend claims that Charles II hid in an oak tree at Boscobel and that Robin Hood made his headquarters at Major Oak in Sherwood Forest. Tarzan of the Apes and Pooh Bear are both renowned for their occupancy of treehouses. This beautiful book is at once a unique survey and a heartfelt appreciation of that delightful creation, the treehouse.
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ISBN: 0709031521
 
     
 
The Caves of Segada
This story of pursuit and counter-pursuit set in the islands of the South China Sea is dominated by the sinister and enigmatic figure of Rhodes. His mysterious activities are the concern of Willis, an undercover agent whose purpose it is to monitor Rhodes’ exploits and to trap him if and when he has proof of any illegal ventures. James, the narrator, is an English schoolmaster traveling in the Philippines who is drawn into the quest by Willis. Rhodes and his pretty Vietnamese girl companion lead James and Willis a merry dance through the islands, always managing to keep several steps ahead. . . until the final dramatic and fascinating confrontation in the wild mountain province of Segada
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ISBN: 070902343X
 
     
 
The Brokers of Doom
The Brokers of Doom is the final part of the trilogy which began with The Caves of Steeds and continued in Central and South America with The Eye of ltza. Now the setting moves to the Mediterranean where the villain of the peace is a billionaire American movie maker whose film projects disguise a subversive plot to undermine the security of the Western world. This fast moving finale takes the reader swiftly from Tangiers to Rome, Hollywood, Venice and finally Cairo as the threads of the plot unravel. The characters are as intriguing as the locations. Events switch from a ruined castle in Umbria to film sets in the Egyptian desert where the 'Curse of Tutankhamen' is being shot. The razzmatazz of Hollywood and a chase through the wilds of Turkey all dramatically combine to bring the story towards its final unpredictable conclusion.
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ISBN: 0-7090-28741
 
     
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