TRAVEL WATCH: AUGUST 2, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 4

M A N I L A   C I T Y   G U I D E Recommended Reading © Richard I'Anson. Lonely Planet Images • Lonely Planet's The Philippines and South-East Asia on a Shoestring are comprehensive guides containing information about Manila. Lonely Planet also publishes a very handy, pocket-sized Pilipino Phrasebook. • A Short History of the Philippines by Teodoro Agoncillo is a general introduction to the country's past. • For Every Tear A Victory by Hartzell Spence is reckoned to be the definitive Marcos biography, but there are others who insist that America's Boy, by James Hamilton-Paterson is a superior read. • Corazon Aquino and the Brushfire Revolution by Robert Reid and Eileen Guerrero clinically appraises the Aquino presidency, which promised so much and delivered so little. • Timothy Mo's Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard has nothing to do with bowel disorders and everything to do with low-voltage Manila and its murky political twilight zone. < BACK | NEXT > © 1999 Lonely Planet Publications Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved

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