Hooked On The Andaman Sea
December, 1990
Hooked on the Andaman SeaThe Andaman Sea shines as blue and clear as the eyeball of the Buddha, east of the wider face of the Bay of Bengal. It is a rare hybrid of open ocean and vast circumscribed loch, stippled on its western extreme by a fringe of eponymous islands and blocked to the east by the long, bony sweep of the Malay Peninsula.The Andaman Islanders speak a language proved unrelated to any other on the globe, as if they were bent on keeping a tribal secret. Among other things, they hol...