Author: James Talboys WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Journal of a Voyage Up the Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Bhamo
Author: James Talboys WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Journey [i.e. Journal] of a Voyage Up the Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Bhamo
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Author: James Talboys WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This account of a trip up the Burma's Irrawaddy River provides an eye-witness description of the people and customs of the country in the year 1870. Wheeler was a secretary in the Foreign Department of British Burma, and his expedition, which visited ruined Pagan as well as Mandalay, took him into northern reaches of the country not yet incorporated into the Empire.
Journal of a Voyage up the Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Bhamo
Author: J. Talboys WheelerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382100738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Journal of a Voyage Up the Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Bhamo
Author: James Talboys WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Bibliotheca Indosinica
Author: Henri CordierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publications de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Author: Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456623
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 3477
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher: London : The Institute
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas
Author: Mina RocesPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782846948
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Explores the ways in which dress has been influential in the political agendas and self-representations of politicians in a variety of regimes from democratic to authoritarian. Arguing that dress is part of politics, this book shows how dress has been crucial to the constructions of nationhood and national identities in Asia and the Americas.