Playing with Water

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. 

Author: James Hamilton Paterson 

Publisher: Twentieth Century Lives

Released Date: 1994

ISBN: 9780941533829