{"product_id":"homage-to-bangladesh-a-memoir-of-a-time-and-a-place-9781911397397","title":"Homage to Bangladesh: A Memoir of a Time and a Place","description":"Bangladesh has been shunned by tourists from the moment it was created in 1971. Henry Kissinger described it as a basketcase. Poverty and humanitarian disasters defined Bangladesh in the ensuing decades. When Rupert Grey arrived in Dhaka in 1992, a sign announced that arrivals were 'Welcome to Bangladesh before the tourists get here'. They still haven't. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrey first came to Bangladesh as a London lawyer armed with three FM2 cameras. Many journeys and 30 years later he is a photographer armed with a useful legal background. The catalysts were Chobi Mela, the festival of photography, and its founder Shahidul Alam, an acclaimed photographer, human rights activist and \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's Person of the Year in 2018. \u003cp\u003eThis book charts Grey's love affair with Bangladesh, including an epic transcontinental journey through India to Chobi Mela in a vintage Rolls-Royce, later portrayed in the award-winning, Sharon Stone produced film\u003ci\u003e Romantic Road\u003c\/i\u003e. His photographs, mostly taken on film, speak powerfully of the cultural vitality and energy which Kissinger missed, and which inspired Grey's \u003ci\u003eHomage to Bangladesh\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unicorn Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911397397\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.20h x 9.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Rupert Grey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44792564351157,"sku":"9781911397397","price":38.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8a64065e-a43d-4cb2-9330-782147cd2efc.jpg?v=1731426631","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/homage-to-bangladesh-a-memoir-of-a-time-and-a-place-9781911397397","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}