Re: [Leica] Leica vs. Contax wars

[john <bosjohn@mediaone.net>]

Chuck Albertson wrote:
> 
> Dan,
> 
> If you haven't read it already, find a copy of "Land of Jade" by Bertil
> Lintner. It's an account of an 18-month trip, most of it on foot, from
> Nagaland (in India), across northern Burma, and into Thailand from 1985 to
> 1987. He and his wife (who took most of the photographs while also carrying
> their daughter, who was born at the beginning of the trip) encountered
> nearly all of the ethnic communities that inhabit the area, as well as the
> various insurgent groups that are still fighting in the border areas. I have
> the first edition that was published in the late 80's, although I understand
> a revised second edition came out in 1996.
> 
> Chuck Albertson
> Seattle, Wash.
> 
> > Friends
> >
> > I have just returned from a photo shoot up in the hills of north Thailand.
> > The Karen people, whom I photographed, are the largest tribal group of
> hill
> > people living in  Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Thailand. The various hill
> > tribes are effectively spread out over a large area in these countries and
> > they live side by side with one another. One would not be surprised to
> find
> > a Hmong village just a walking distance from a Karen village.  They speak
> > different languages and have different costumes. Otherwise they can look
> > similar.
> >
Were you in the area where the Hospital hostage situation occured, I heard the
Thai military sumarily executed the insergents without trials.
Bosjohn