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2004: A personal account of a man who lost his brother in the disaster
Let Not the Waves of the Sea
What you need to know before your trail
Simon Stephenson sadly lost his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami. He decides to write his story down in the hope that it will help him and his family as well as other people to see hope in the most unlikely of places.
He goes to the island and to the place where his brother died and goes on a story of redemption and hope.
Travel Guide
Phi Phi
Despite the book being about a sad event in someone’s life, the author still manages to appreciate the beauty of the island. The island still is a beautiful place he says despite the sadness it brings him but he is keen to portray how lovely it and the people there are.
What Phi Phi most closely resembles , though, is this: a lush cartoon apple gnawed almost to the core by some hungryTom and Jerry in a long-ago Saturday morning cartoon.
The fragile core that remains – the sandbar, the isthmus, the elongated alien’s neck is barely half a mile across
Viewpoint
Standing on the rocks at Viewpoint, you can pick out its landmarks like a deity playing a celestial game of I- Spy
The Tsunami
The island was one of the places affected by the Tsunami but the journey although personal, brings out the beauty of the island and how landscapes define and inspire people.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Let Not the Waves of the Sea
Author/Guide Simon Stephenson Destination: Koh Phi Phi Departure Time: 2004
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