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The Traveller's History of Burma
by Abbott, Gerry
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- 2000
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2000. The author has edited and woven together an amazing array of descriptions of Burma by early travellers, quoting over 90 sources. Having thoroughly researched past travellers' accounts, he elegantly constructs, from these, a vivid history of the country. A compact, highly readable 'thinking man's' travel guide. 208pp., 45 colour and b&w plates, 4 maps, bibliography, index.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Angkor Observed
by Rooney, Dawn F.
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- 2003
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2003. Describes a selection of early travellers' impressions of the Khmer empire's ancient 12th century capital and the legends that inspired the majestic stone temples of Angkor, which a visitor in the 1920's declared 'the most impressive sight in the world of edifices'. The work brings to the reader many out-of-print impressions of early Western travellers and… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Plant Hunter in Tibet
by Kingdon-Ward, Frank
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2006. This account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward's 1933 expedition to the southeastern corner of Tibet was as significant for his geographic revelations as it was for the wealth of plant species with which he returned. On this journey Kingdon-Ward reached as far as the Salween River, a particularly remote area of Tibet not previously known… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Siamese Bestiary
by Inwood, Kristiaan
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- 2005
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2005. Thailand. The name evokes images of golden pagodas, emerald rice fields, jungled mountains, a happy, gregarious people. Siamese Bestiary reveals another aspect of Thailand--the intimate coexistence shared by animal and human life in the tropics. Lizards play hide-and-seek on walls and ceilings; frogs colonize bathrooms and crabs doze behind water jars; turtles make nocturnal visits; snakes… Read more about this item Item Price
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Horace in Burma
by Symes, J. M.
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- 1997
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1997. A collection of 31 short poems originally published in the Rangoon Gazette for an Anglo-Burmese / Anglo-Indian readership. Described by the author as a 'literary sampan'. Many evoke an Englishman's nostalgia for his homeland. The Colonial Library of Dignified Irreverence reprint of 1910 Rangoon edition. 96 pp., gilt edges. Decorative Cloth. As New. 17.5 x 12… Read more about this item Item Price
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Twenty-One Days in India: Being the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, KCB
by Abereigh-Mackay, George
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- 1998
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- 9789748304090
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1998. A tongue-in-cheek series of sketches of nineteenth-century colonial life in India, originally published in Vanity Fair and so popular that it ran to six editions. Delightfully irreverent! The Colonial Library of Dignified Irreverence reprint of 1896 6th edition. 252 pp., 13 b&w illustrations, gilt edges. Decorative Cloth. As New. 14 x 10.5 cm. Item Price
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A Modern De Quincey: Autobiography of an Opium Addict
by Robinson, H. R.
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- 2004
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2004. Captain Robinson, completing a posting as a young British administrator in remote northern Burma, returned to Mandalay in 1923 to await a new assignment. One evening, Robinson and two friends came by chance upon an opium den. While his friends called it a night, Robinson stayed on to sample the forbidden pleasures within-a decision that was… Read more about this item Item Price
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North of India
by Robertson, David
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- 1998
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1998. Subtitled : 'Some 19th Century Europeans in the Himalayan Regions and Central Asia'. A compilation of the fascinating biographies of a number of 19th century Western travellers in the Himalayas and Central Asia, including Richmond Shakespeare, Joseph Hooker and Ashley Eden, among others. 182 pp., 19 colour and 17 b&w plates, 5 maps, notes on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Curry and Rice on Forty Plates
by Atkinson, George Francklin
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- 1998
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- 9789748299518
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1998. Subtitled 'Or the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India'. A light hearted account of life in India, with 40 delightful vignettes, including 'Our Colonel', 'Our Padre', 'Our Magistrate's Wife', 'Our Racecourse', 'Our Bazar', 'Our Agriculturists' and "Our Nuwab'. Each is accompanied by a watercolour illustration. The Colonial Library of Dignified Irreverence reprint of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Gentleman in the Parlour : A Record of a Journey fromRangoon to Haiphong
by Maugham, W. Somerset
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- 2016
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2016. Maugham's tale of travel through Burma, Indochina and Siam in the 1920's, told with all of the empathy and sharp-eyed observation of human nature for which the author eventually became legendary. Reprint of the 1930 edition with new introduction by H. K. Kuloy. 254 pp.. Reprint. Soft Cover. New. 20 x 13.3 cm. Item Price
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The Sacred Footprint: The Cultural History of Adam's Peak
by Aksland, Markus
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- 2001
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2001. Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka is one of the five places where Gautama Buddha left the trace of his foot, but it is also an important place of pilgrimage for Muslims, Hindus and some Christians. This book examines the Sinhala pilgrimage tradition both from Sinhala and non-Sinhala sources, and explains the cult of Saman, the white… Read more about this item Item Price
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Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on the Burma Frontier
by Mirante, Edith
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- 2005
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2005. A new memoir of the authors journeys among the brave indigenous peoples of some of Asias most remote and violent regions. Knowledgeably obsessed with Burmas struggle for freedom, American artist/activist Mirante breaks laws and infiltrates borders, in impassioned journeys of discovery that take her through China, India, Laos, and chaotic Bangladesh. Down the Rat Hole is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Burma's Icy Mountains
by Kingdon-Ward, Frank
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2006. Burma's Icy Mountains describes two expeditions to Burma-one on his own and a second, with a larger American party close to the Burma-China border-completed by the intrepid explorer and plant hunter, Kingdon-Ward, prior to the outbreak of WWII. Not published until the post war period some ten years later, the book is of particular interest in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Charles Masson of Afghanistan: Explorer, Archaeologist, Numismatist and Intelligence Agent
by Whitteridge, Gordon
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- 2002
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2002. Masson was one of the most courageous and resourceful early British explorers in Central Asia, wandering over the Punjab, Baluchistan and Afghanistan between 1827 and 1840, usually alone and on foot. During his lengthy sojourn in Kabul, he collected a vast number of coins which revealed previously unknown Graeco-Bactrian and Kushan monarchs, excavated a significant number… Read more about this item Item Price
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Three Military Accounts of the 1688 'Revolution' in Siam
by Desfarges, General, Lieutenant De La Touche & J. V. des Verquains
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2002. The coup d'état of 18 May, 1688 in the Siamese 'Versailles' at Lopburi led to the establishment of the last Ayutthayan dynasty. But it was not just another internal palace coup in face of the imminent death of the reigning monarch, Narai. For the King's favourite, Phaulkon, had been instrumental in bringing a French expeditionary force… Read more about this item Item Price
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Welcome to Burma
by Syrota, Timothy
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- 2001
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2001. Subtitled 'and Enjoy the Totalitarian Experience'. Penetrating and empathetic insights into the daily lives and trials of the Burmese people as they eke out an existence under the ever watchful gaze of their oppressive military government. Syrota, an Australian human rights activist, spent many months roaming the cities and countryside meeting and chatting with citizens from… Read more about this item Item Price
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William Woodville Rockhill: Scholar Diplomat of the Tibetan Highlands
by Wimmel, Kenneth
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- 2003
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2003. A new biography of the American diplomat and linguist William Rockhill (1854-1914). Rockhill's renown is experiencing a revival among members of a growing group. Tibetan Buddhism, its art and philosophy, now attracts more students and a wider general audience beyond that still small circle of Tibetan scholars. Rockhill's name, once almost forgotten except in connection… Read more about this item Item Price
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Voyage to Siam
by Tachard, Guy
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- 1999
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1999. Subtitle : 'Performed by Six Jesuits Sent by the French King to the Indies and China in the Year 1685'. An account of a Jesuit mission to Siam in 1685, doomed to failure by indiscreet attempts to convert the Siamese King to Catholicism, ignoring the King's desire to focus on political and commercial relations. Reprint of… Read more about this item Item Price
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In Farthest Burma
by Kingdon-Ward, Frank
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2005. Subtitle : The record of an Arduous Journey of Exploration and Research through the Unknown Frontier Territory of Burma and Tibet. Records the 1914 expedition of Kingdon-Ward, the famed plant-collector and explorer, along the eastern branch of Burmas great Irrawaddy River. A classic travel and botany account, told in the authors inimitable style, with much… Read more about this item Item Price
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Voyage au Népal
by le Bon, Gustave
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- 1981
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- 9789748304113
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Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1981. Une étude classique du 19ème siècle sur le Népal, réalisée par Gustave Le Bon, érudit très renommé. La première partie raconte le voyage de Le Bon au Népal ainsi que ses déplacements, ce qui donne une description du pays, avec son histoire, ses coutumes, sa structure sociale, ses religions, et sa littérature. La seconde partie du… Read more about this item Item Price
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