Newest Review: ... me to make comparisons with an easier world of video-recorders and microwaves in the homes of some of our country's poor. Only by visiting places like this can we see how well off we are. A young girl scrubbed some clothes clean, yet floating in the ditch two feet below her I could see decomposing excrement. Barrow-boys pushed a clearer water to the wooden houses; how clean it really was, I hated to think. Sunda Kelpa: After some bargaining, a boatman ferried me across to Sunda Kelpa, where labouring youths unloaded timber, steel, or sacks of rocks on their shoulders. They had to walk across precarious-looking planks and many of... more