SPARRING WITH CHARLIE Motorbiking Down the Ho Chi Mihn Trail

For a small country far from America, Vietnam--for obvious reasons--looms large in the American imagination. Journalist Christopher Hunt provides a sometimes amusing and often insightful look at this country while describing his attempt to travel over the famed supply line of the North Vietnamese army. Tom Parker is clear, well paced, and sensitive to the nuances of the work in his reading of this cleverly written text. His capacity to capture the many accents of the characters--from American vets living in Vietnam to both sympathetic and belligerent Vietnamese--makes this a better than average performance. M.L.C. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: JUN/JUL 01]