Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy One Woman MidLife Travel Adventures on Myanmar Great River eBook Ma Thanegi
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Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy is the story of a woman who spent several years in Myanmar’s Insein Prison for political dissent and pursued a lifelong dream when she was released from her cell. In her late fifties and unaccompanied, Ma Thanegi traveled the 1300 miles of the Ayeyarwaddy River, an odyssey that spanned several years and involved negotiating a couple of perilous river gorges (defiles, on the Ayeyarwaddy, aka Irrawaddy). This is a lady who is never without her sense of humor—or her trusty tube of red lipstick—or her determination to follow her dreams.
Author of The Native Tourist and many books on the history and culture of Myanamar, Ma Thanegi is also a visual artist whose paintings have been exhibited in and out of Yangon. She lives in Yangon’s Chinatown neighborhood and travels throughout her country, and beyond its borders, every chance she gets.
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Here’s what a few of Ma Thanegi’s readers have to say about Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy.
“There are few South East Asian authors in the English medium these days that can match Ma Thanegi for style, verve, or humour.” Professor Robert H. Taylor, City University of Hong Kong
“Congenitally curious with insatiable wanderlust, the author, Ma Thanegi captures the reader's imagination with her descriptions of people and places. She paints a vivid and colorful picture of festivals and foods of Burma in delicious detail.” Cleo Appleton, Live to Eat Group
“As far as I know, Ma Thanegi’s travel books are the only ones written by a Burmese who not only knows her country very well but also knows what we foreigners don't know or understand about her country.” Isabelle Bouan, translator
Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy One Woman MidLife Travel Adventures on Myanmar Great River eBook Ma Thanegi
Defiled on the Ayeyawaddy by Ma ThanegiA welcome enjoyable read of a river journey by an author who speaks with a Burmese voice capturing cultural nuances and inflections of everyday people as she journeys the Ayeyawaddy ( Irrawaddy River ) from its source in the foothills of the Himalayas to the Delta as it flows to the Indian Ocean.
Congenitally curious with insatiable wanderlust, the author, Ma Thanegi captures the reader's imagination her descriptions of people and places. She paints a vivid and colorful picture of festivals and foods of Burma in delicious detail.
I recommend this book and look forward to many more by her especially if she were to make a "Food Odyssey." The Live to Eat Group.
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Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy One Woman MidLife Travel Adventures on Myanmar Great River eBook Ma Thanegi Reviews
Before I read "Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddy", I'd only read about Myanmar in books that were published when it was still called Burma. And most of those books were written by expats like Orwell. Ma Thanegi's beautiful book (her writing and photos) is a testimony to her love of Myanmar. All too often we in the west hear about the oppression in Myanmar, but Ma sets us straight. She writes a little about her past as a political prisoner, so she doesn't sugar coat the conditions there. But she shows how a government doesn't represent its people. Ma is independent, witty, and insightful. I felt like I was sailing with her on her many trips down the Ayeyarwaddy, hard floor and all. This is a great book for people who are interested in Myanmar, who plan to travel there, and for those who enjoy fascinating travelogues.
On the surface this appears to be your basic travel book, although one with a twist a middle-aged Myanmar (Burmese) woman travels by boat (or rather a variety of watercraft) down the country's famous Ayeyarwady River. But this is more than just a travel tale, it's full of valuable insight about this marvelous, magical and misunderstood country, especially its culture and most importantly the people. Ma Thanegi has a remarkable eye for detail and her descriptions of the sights and sounds along the wayare fascinating. And I can't forget the tastes either. Ma Thanegi has written several books on Myanmar cuisine and her knowledge, and hunger, comes across during her accounts of the meals and snacks she has, and shares, during her trip. It made me hungry just reading about it all! All in all, this is very informative, entertaining, and quite funny account of her river adventure. This should be required reading for anyone who wants to know more about Myanmar and the remarkable people who inhabit its diverse towns and regions.
Of course it wasn't Ma Thanegi's fault that I found myself risking my life trudging beside a busy highway on the outskirts of Penang's suburbs. Just because I was reading her latest book Defiled on the Ayeyarwaddywhen I overshot my bus stop, so immersed in her longing to play the drums at a Kachin festival that I was half-way to the airport before I looked up and realized my error, I have no reason to blame that on her. God knows I'd been eager enough to rush downtown to get her book and bring it home--and it was my greedy curiosity that made me rip the package open before I even left the post office.
Just because I was still thinking about the stones she had found at the beginning of the Ayeyarwaddy River, which she had someone polish into smooth, cool beads and string into necklaces and bracelets, and was feeling blessed that she had given one of each to me, and wondered what they had looked like when Thanegi found them and crammed her pockets full--this was no reason to mentally castigate her while I walked cautiously along a little grassy strip as cars whizzed past me.
I tried hard not to let my mind wander to the prospectors who dredge one of the rivers that becomes part of the Ayeyarwaddy, looking for gold, wondering how similar they were to Alaskan gold panners, and forced myself not to think about the woman with the baby strapped to her back whom Thanegi talked to, the one who dreamed of finding lumps of gold as big as peanuts in the round wooden tray that served as her gold pan.
But as I realized my trek was taking me into the territory of a freeway and retraced my steps to find a less hazardous route, I began to think about the quiet villages and rock-strewn roads and the ice-cold, clear water that began Ma Thanegi's 1300-mile trip down the Ayeyarwaddy river and felt envious. I roamed past squat, ugly, cement "link houses" with a strong pang of gratitude that I didn't live in one of them and wondered why some women find themselves wandering in search of a bus stop while others boat-hop their way down one of the world's great rivers.
When I found a bus that would take me home, I refused to allow myself to go any further with Ma Thanegi until I had entered my apartment. After all, it's not as though I hadn't read it before, I scolded myself, I'd edited it, for God's sake. But even though at one point a year or so ago, I practically knew every page of this book by heart, I couldn't wait to plop down on my couch and keep reading.
A whole day shot to hell, I thought happily as I sank back into Thanegi's verbal company. Drat the woman, I echoed her long-suffering pal, Ko Sunny, here we go again...
Ma Thanegi is my friend; I am her editor at ThingsAsian Press. I can't review this book. But I can lose myself in it, I can get lost while reading it, and I can tell everyone I know that if they want to meet one of my favorite people in the world, take a trip with her down the Ayeyarwaddy. Just don't begin your journey while you're still on a bus.
This book should be read by anyone contemplating a trip to Myanmar. It gives the reader a good insight to the foods, celebrations, daily life and routines of the people who travel on and live near the Ayeyarwaddy River.
Really enjoyed this book. Want to read more of her.
This is one of the best books that I have read - gave an excellent description of her travels and the people she met. Such a vivid description - you can visualize the scenes and the people. I would recommend this book to all Myanmar expatriates - very nostalgic - as well as tourists planning to visit the country. Win May
Ma Tanengi is funny, food obsessed and extremely observant about Myanmar. She is also a wonderful painter of word pictures. (If her real paintings are as good as her writing, they must be very special.)I read this travelling around the country and it enhanced my trip so much I wanted to seek her out and buy her a wonderful dinner.
Defiled on the Ayeyawaddy by Ma Thanegi
A welcome enjoyable read of a river journey by an author who speaks with a Burmese voice capturing cultural nuances and inflections of everyday people as she journeys the Ayeyawaddy ( Irrawaddy River ) from its source in the foothills of the Himalayas to the Delta as it flows to the Indian Ocean.
Congenitally curious with insatiable wanderlust, the author, Ma Thanegi captures the reader's imagination her descriptions of people and places. She paints a vivid and colorful picture of festivals and foods of Burma in delicious detail.
I recommend this book and look forward to many more by her especially if she were to make a "Food Odyssey." The Live to Eat Group.
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