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Hargrove, Thomas R.

 
9780759685826: A Dragon Lives Forever: War and Rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0759685827 ISBN 13 : 9780759685826
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

The U.S. was pulling troops out of Vietnam in June 1969 when First Lieutenant Thomas Hargrove reported as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Army in Chuong Thien, one of the most backwater and dangerous provinces in the Mekong Delta. He was an Infantry officer, but also a West Texas cotton farmer with advanced degrees in agricultural science. Hargrove was soon teaching Vietnamese farmers to grow a miracle rice from the Philippines that tripled production. But as an Army lieutenant, he routinely had to call B-52 strikes on the same farmers who planted those rice seeds. War and peace. Working with both was hellish. The pacification program was meant to win hearts and minds. But blood mingled freely with those vital organs in Chuong Thien.Two decades later Hargrove returned twice to the former Chuong Thien province. His hosts were former Viet Cong who had known - but did not kill - Hargrove because he brought the new rice seeds.Hargrove writes of a different kind of war that few Americans knew-- of how it led to a career in the Green Revolution-- of being drawn back to those terrible rivers and swamps where it all began.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Thomas R. Hargrove was raised on a West Texas cotton farm. He received a double B.S. in agricultural science and journalism from Texas A& M University. His M.S. and Ph.D. are from Iowa State University.Hargrove served as an officer in the U.S. Army 1968-1970, including one year in Vietnam. That experience catalyzed his career in international agriculture, specializing in rice. From 1973 through 1991, Hargrove served the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. During that time he wrote that book The Mysteries of Taal: A Philippine volcano and lake, her sea life and lost towns.In 1992, Hargrove joined the international Center for Tropical Agriculture, based near Cali, Colombia. In 1994, he was kidnapped by Colombian narco-guerrillas and held hostage for eleven months. That experience led to his book Long March To Freedom: Tom Hargrove's Own Story of His Kidnapping by Colombian Narco-Guerrillas, which is also available from 1stBooks Library. Long March inspired the Warner Bros. movie Proof of Life.In 1995, he and his wife Susan returned to the United States. He now works as an editorial consultant and is editor and partner for PlanetRice.net, an Internet portal site serving the world rice industry.In 1988, Hargrove received the ACE Professional Award, the highest honor given to a single communicator by Agricultural Communicators in Education, a 700-member professional society based in the USA. In 1997, Texas A&M inducted Hargrove as the first honoree in its Journalism Hall of Honor.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The U.S. was pulling troops out of Vietnam in June 1969 when First Lieutenant Thomas Hargrove reported as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Army in Chuong Thien, one of the most backwater and dangerous provinces in the Mekong Delta. He was an Infantry officer, but also a West Texas cotton farmer with advanced degrees in agricultural science. Hargrove was soon teaching Vietnamese farmers to grow a miracle rice from the Philippines that tripled production. But as an Army lieutenant, he routinely had to call B-52 strikes on the same farmers who planted those rice seeds. War and peace. Working with both was hellish. The pacification program was meant to win hearts and minds. But blood mingled freely with those vital organs in Chuong Thien.Two decades later Hargrove returned twice to the former Chuong Thien province. His hosts were former Viet Cong who had known - but did not kill - Hargrove because he brought the new rice seeds.Hargrove writes of a different kind of war that few Americans knew-- of how it led to a career in the Green Revolution-- of being drawn back to those terrible rivers and swamps where it all began.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0759685827
ISBN 13 
9780759685826
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
600
Coordonnées du fabricant
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