English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Travel & Geography, Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Beth Ellis In Year : 1899

Book Language: English

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Introduction and I. The Voyage
II. Rangoon
III. The Road to Mandalay
IV. The Journey to the HIlls
V. The Up-country Station
VI. The European Inhabitants
VII. The Burmese
VIII. Entertaining
IX. Adventures
X. Beasts and Reptiles
XI. Sport
XII. The Return

An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a well-edited, turn-of-the-century journal documenting a young woman’s visit to Burma. The account documents her ocean voyage to Rangoon, and her stay in a small, jungle-embedded, European community in Remyo. The author, who travelled to Asia alone to visit her brother, is quick to laugh at her own exaggerated fears. She gives us a glimpse into the less-than-glamorous lives to Myanmar’s British occupiers. The book was published in 1899, just thirteen years after the conclusion of the third Anglo-Burmese war, when Britain took formal control of Myanmar and made it a province of India. (Summary by Carol Fullerton-Samsel)