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Barbara Hawkins has lived a variety of lives: as a botanist--collecting plant specimens from Latin American jungles, engineer--building wetlands, parks, and bridges, finally as an author of historical fiction, science fiction, and international travelogues. Adventure travel is a hobby she's had since before it had a name. Nowadays, if she isn't at home writing, she's traveling somewhere. Visit her at BarbaraHawkins-writer.com.

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Behind the Forgotten Front, A WWII Novel

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Burmese Days by George Orwell

The new name for Burma is Myanmar. But the people are still Burmese. To get an understanding of the people and what it's like for foreigners to be so far from home that it takes months to return, read George Orwell's Burmese Days.

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