Sensing the Enemy
Garden City, NY: The Dial Press/Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1984. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. [10], 176, [4] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Book associated postcard (5.75 inches by 9 inches) laid in, hand written and signed by Lady Borden to Matt Schaeffer of WBCN Radio in Boston. Author's account as a health administrator for the Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong that had become a temporary way station for Vietnamese boat people. Lady Borton was b. 1942. has been a teacher; has worked with the Overseas Refugee Program of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Quang Ngai, Vietnam, assistant director, 1969-71; and is a freelance writer and photographer, 1972- present. She gained international renown as an American woman among the boat people of Vietnam. Her work, Sensing the Enemy, describes the plight of the Vietnamese "boat people" who faced disease, pirate attacks, unsanitary and crowded conditions, and other dangers to escape from Vietnam to Pulau Bi Dong, a tiny, previously uninhabited island in Malaysia. More