Author: Paul EdmondsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Peacocks and Pagodas
Author: Paul EdmondsPeacocks and Pagodas
Author: Paul EdmondsPeacocks and Pagodas
Author: Paul EdmondsPeacocks and Pagodas
Author: Paul EdmondsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404168131
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The New Orient
Author: Book Reviewing
Author: Wayne GardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book reviewing
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Books and Notes
Author: Los Angeles County Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.
Tigers, Mountains and Pagodas
Author: Stanley C RobbinsPublisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803815159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Tigers, Mountains and Pagodas The story of a special and adventurous life At the end of 1923 Stanley Robins passed out of Sandhurst as a prize-winning cadet. He was commissioned into the North Staffordshire regiment, at the time based in British India. Stanley was "thrilled" at this posting as he saw army service in India as the gateway to a "special and adventurous life"; and so it turned out to be. In India Stanley became an expert and highly knowledgeable big game hunter, especially of tigers, including man-eaters and gained a deep affinity with the Indian Jungle and its wildlife. He became a lifelong friend of Jim Corbett; the greatest of the big game hunters. Like Jim he was to be an advocate for wildlife conservation and condemned post World War II hunting methods, especially in Africa. Army postings sent Stanley to the dangerous and volatile North-West Frontier, where "no man's life was safe". He was decorated for gallantry in one of the hardest fought operations on the Frontier. Despite the dangers of nearly constant action against the war-like border tribes he gained a deep knowledge of its people, the country and the culture. Whenever military postings allowed he was keen to visit and learn about the India that had put a "spell" on him; its varied peoples, culture and history and to visit the areas of India rarely seen by most Europeans. As international tensions grew in the late 1930s Stanley was transferred to what became the 14h Army in Burma, playing a vital part in the Allied fighting withdrawal from the "Land of Pagodas" and was decorated for his distinguished service. He was the last man out of Rangoon and the first through the Taukkyan Roadblock, by which the Japanese army hoped to trap Allied forces in Burma, in their lightning campaign. During the Allied liberation of Burma Stanley was personally selected by General Slim, commander of the 14th Army, to ensure effective, critical and growing logistical support for Allied forces, US, Chinese and British, in their advance against the Japanese. At Indian independence Stanley's actions and decisions on that day prevented what might have been a massacre of Europeans and loyal Indian Army soldiers at Nagpur.