Author: BurmaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Burma Handbook
Author: BurmaMyanmar (Burma) Handbook
Author: Joshua EliotPublisher: Footprint Handbook
ISBN: 9780900751875
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by a Southeast Asia specialist who has lived, worked and travelled extensively in the region for 15 years, this handbook on Myanmar provides both background and detailed travel information. It explains how to plan an independent trip, and where to go and where not to go.
Area Handbook for Burma
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Area StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Let's Visit Burma
Author: Aung San Suu KyiPublisher: Main Line Book Company
ISBN: 9780222009791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Describes the geography, history, people, and customs of Burma.
Miss Burma
Author: Charmaine CraigPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802189520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
“Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history. Years later, Benny and Khin’s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma’s first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family’s past, the West’s ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom. “At once beautiful and heartbreaking . . . An incredible family saga.” —Refinery29 “Miss Burma charts both a political history and a deeply personal one—and of those incendiary moments when private and public motivations overlap.” —Los Angeles Times
Thailand & Burma Handbook
Author: Passage to Burma
Author: Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 9781634504850
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Get lost in the timeless beauty of a country in transition. It is a charming and satisfying thing that there are still places in this world where magic seems to pervade the sights, smells, and sounds of a place more than the trappings of the so-called modern world. For more than ten years Scott Stulberg has made multiple pilgrimages to Burma (sometimes called Myanmar) to capture this sense of magic with his cameras. The result of those pilgrimages is captured here in a collection of images that display the heart and soul of this magnificent country. This is a place of dreams. Bagan, where two thousand pagodas carved from the native rock occupy an area one-sixth the size of Washington, DC. Mandalay, an exercise in calm and chaos that seduces the eye in every direction. Inle Lake, where images pop up around every corner: fishermen in their long boats, their legs wrapped strangely around the paddles; small villages clustered along the water like clumps of mussels clinging to a rocky shoreline. Mrauk, a place so remote that tourists are a curious rarity. And Yangon (once Rangoon), a tropical coastal city that still bears the remnants of colonial rule along its shady avenues. And around every corner of this country of contrasts are Burma’s Buddhist monks in their distinct saffron robes. Their warmth and openness have come to symbolize this amazing country. This second edition of Passage to Burma includes new photographs from Stulberg’s latest travels abroad to this remarkable place. “This is Burma,” wrote Ruyard Kipling. “It is quite unlike any place you know about.”
Myanmar Army, National Security and Defense Policy Handbook - Strategic Information and Weapon Systems
Author: IBP, Inc.Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1438734301
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Myanmar Army, National Security and Defense Policy Handbook
Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon Including AllBritish India, the Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Indian States
Author: A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon
Author: John Murray (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description