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英文原版《An Eastern Saga》是美国新闻特派员及摄影记者Marvin Farkas的自传，记录了他于50、60年代期间在东方地区工作的经历，包括印尼荷兰人驱逐活动和早年的越南战争等，还有他与周恩来、印度总统苏加诺和传奇导演Satyajit Ray会面的故事。原价110元，现团购价29元包邮！

　　Marvin Farkas其原本是一名纽约演员，他放弃了在百老汇舞台扮演主角角色的机会，选择了来到远东地区体验刺激和冒险的生活。作为一名新闻特派员及摄影记者先驱，他在50、60年代期间曾经报导有关越南、柬埔寨、印尼、巴基斯坦战争以及中国解放等事件。
　　Marvin亦曾经参与制作几部非常著名的亚洲背景电影，其中《苏丝黄的世界》便是代表作。出生在布朗克斯的他，至今已是香港外国记者协会的长固成员。Marvin的自传"An Eastern Saga"记录了他在东方地区工作的经历，包括了有关当年在印尼发生的荷兰人驱逐活动以至早年的越南战争等。还有他遇见周恩来、印度总统苏加诺、巴基斯坦政治人物阿里·布托、和传奇导演Satyajit Ray会面的故事。Marvin当年也是澳门的常客，在他的书中叙述了一次他在澳门取景拍摄时遇上一名澳门警员的事件经过。南华早报对Marvin的采访形容为“一个再自然不过的故事叙事者”。

　　Marvin Farkas is a New York film maker who gave up a promising career as an actor abandoning a leading role in a hit show on Broadway to travel to adventure and excitement in the Far East. As a news correspondent/cameraman he covered wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and the Indo/Pakistani conflict. He was on the scene filming student uprisings in Japan and Korea. He filmed earthquakes in Bali and floods in Pakistan and was on hand for important political transitions across Asia. Marvin gained the reputation as the man who always got his story, and also worked on some of the biggest Asia films of the day including the iconic A eThe World of Suzie Wong.
　　Marvin Farkas，摄影、制作人，主要作品《G.I. Executioner》。

《An Eastern Saga》东方传奇
作    者：Marvin Farkas 
出 版 社：Make-Do Publishing
条 形 码：9789881841957
出版时间：2010-12-1
开    本：32开
页    数：304
定    价：110 元
内容简介
　　Arriving in Hong Kong in 1954 on the cargo ship Eastern Saga, former Broadway star Marvin took up lodgings at the Foreign CorrespondentA fs Club (FCC) as he started out building a career with only US$200 and the camera which he had taken from his fatherA fs New York studio. Beginning as a copy editor on Hong Kong paper the Tiger Standard, Marvin soon established himself as a budding news photographer, covering local events from the fatal Cathay Pacific crash of 1954, to the infamous A ePeak Tram MurderA f of 1955, in which Marvin nearly had a starring roleA c Within weeks of arriving in Hong Kong, Marvin had started the Farkas Film Company, which provided footage for the international news networks and took Marvin all around the region, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Taiwan, giving him a front line view of some of the momentous changes sweeping the region. Marvin also worked on many of the major Asia films of the day, including A eThe World of Suzie Wong,A f and with stars ranging from Orson Wells to Clark Cable. As Hong Kong was MarvinA fs base, the book is full of delightful descriptions of Hong Kong of the 1950s and early 1960s, and beautifully captures the city of that day. Marvin describes everything from the Foreign CorrespondentsA f Club, to the dives of Wan Chai, from the high life on the Peak, to opium dens in the Walled City, and from Chinese refugees from the mainland, to days at the beach. Eastern Saga also covers MarvinA fs experiences of events in the wider region, ranging from the expulsion of the Dutch from Indonesia, to Malaysian independence and the early years of the Vietnam war, and his meetings with key figures including Zhou Enlai, Sukarno, Ali Bhutto, and legendary director Satyajit Ray. Above all though, this is a charming account of a fascinating and now vanished era. and 1960s.