Road To Mandalay

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Romance, Travel Fiction, Culture & Heritage Fiction

Authors: Bithia Mary Croker In Year : 1917

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Road To Mandalay

Chapter 1: Blinds Down
Chapter 2: What Hannah Said
Chapter 3: The Closed House
Chapter 4: Kicks and Halfpence
Chapter 5: Clouds
Chapter 6: An Empty Offer
Chapter 7: ''The Monster''
Chapter 8: Bound for Burma
Chapter 9: The ''Blankshire''
Chapter 10: The Land of Promise
Chapter 11: A Burmese Hostess
Chapter 12: East And West
Chapter 13: ''Keep an Eye Upon Her''
Chapter 14: The Mantle of Fernanda
Chapter 15: The Chummery
Chapter 16: Mr. And Mrs. Abel Salter
Chapter 17: At the Play
Chapter 18: The Chinese Shop
Chapter 19: Chaff
Chapter 20: The Pongye
Chapter 21: The Cocaine Den
Chapter 22: The Approaching Dread
Chapter 23: Mystery and Suspicion
Chapter 24: Sentence of Death
Chapter 25: The Late Richard Roscoe
Chapter 26: Fitzgerald Imparts Information
Chapter 27: A Rope Trick
Chapter 28: Ma Chit
Chapter 29: Mung Baw
Chapter 30: Enlightenment
Chapter 31: Seeing Is Believing
Chapter 32: On Duty
Chapter 33: Sophy
Chapter 34: All Is Over
Chapter 35: Mung Baw Lies Low
Chapter 36: The Bombshell
Chapter 37: The Tug of War
Chapter 38: Sergeant-Major Ryan

Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British India in the time between 1912 and 1914, just before WWI.
Academics view Bithia Mary Croker as one of the best authors who wrote about British India.
Note: This book is a product of its times. Therefore, some of the views which are expressed are different from today's. (Summary by Stav Nisser)