VIETNAM
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| The song you're listening to is called Ho Nen. It is a traditional Vietnamese work song. The ships in this image are wooden fishing boats. On the Vietnamese coast, as well as other coastlines in Southeast Asia, one can spot literally hundreds of them in every major fishing port. In a variety of sizes, they are easy to spot, with their bold upright bows flaring from a sharp cutwater at the waterline to high rounded sides at the sheer line, fine high bulwarks protecting the working deck, sweeping in a graceful curve to their wide transom sterns. They all have their pilot house (and engine room cover) well aft and wide open work decks forward. Seen in aerial photos they look almost rectangular. |
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Image: “Herpetology on the Fringes of the Sunda Shelf: A Discussion of Discovery, Taxonomy, and Biogeogarphy” by L.L. Grismer, J. L. Grismer, P. L. Wood, Jr. V. T. Ngo, T. Neang, K. O. Chan from Bonner zoologische Monographien, Nr. 57/2011 Tropical Vertebrates in a Changing World, courtesy of Smithsonian Libraries. Used by permission.
Sound: Music of Vietnam, FW04352, courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) (c) 1961. Used by permission.
