Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island (Twentieth Century Lives)

Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island (Twentieth Century Lives) by Hamilton-Paterson, James. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780941533829.

James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he does. Beyond that, it gives an account of life in that class-bound country as a whole. For it is in places like this rather than Manila of the international news reports that the underlying political and cultural reality of the Philippines may be seen.