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Cross-cultural communication is easy in Myanmar – a smile will do the trick. But just a few words of Burmese will reward you with an enthusiastic reception. Test your bargaining skills at the many colourful markets or try your hand at karaoke Burmese-style. Get where you’re going as you tour on a trishaw or chat with the locals as you party at a pwe...

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Should you go to Myanmar (Burma)?
There are strong arguments both for and against visiting the country. We highlight both sides of the argument in our guidebook and believe that individuals should make a fully informed decision about whether to visit the country.

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In The Trouser People, Andrew Marshall recounts his ambitious crisscrossing of contemporary Burma, which emerges as isolated, heartbreaking, fitfully resilient, and, to Western eyes, certainly, often exotically unfathomable. Marshall's compass is the life of a now-obscure Victorian adventurer, Sir George Scott. He draws distinct parallels between British imperi...

Language Notes
Text: English, Dutch, French, German

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About the Author
Alan Rabinowitz is Director of the Science and Exploration Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society based in the Bronx, New York. He is a frequent contributor to Natural History and is the author of two previous books: Jaguar (Island Press, 2000) and Chasing the Dragon's Tail (Doubleday, 1991).

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Robert Carver, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“…endlessly fascinating and well–informed on this little–known region of Asia… The most unusual and distinguished travel book I have read in years.”

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From Library Journal
A beautifully illustrated book, India Through the Lens accompanies an exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC. Essays by Vidya Dehejia, John Falconer, David Harris, Jane Ricketts, Gary D. Sampson, Charles Allen, and Michael Gray introduce chapters that focus on the work of particular photographers or genres. Included are the work of nat...

Alan Clements, author of The Voice of Hope
"Essential reading for anyone interested in this fascinating country, its people, and their ongoing 'revolution of the spirit.'"

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About the Author
Founded in 1977 in Munich, Nelles Verlag publishes folded road and travel maps in color. Nelles uses special, easy-to-fold paper that allows thousands of refoldings without fraying. Nelles maps are highly readable, detailed relief maps with major roads and point-to-point distances clearly indicated. The maps include highly useful legends; city maps show tourist ...

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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

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From Publishers Weekly
After the untimely death of their 21-year-old son, novelist/screenwriter Wurlitzer ( Little Buddha ) and his wife, photogapher Lynn Davis, embarked on a spiritual journey through Thailand, Burma (now Myanmar) and Cambodia, seeking solace and enlightenment from Buddhist sacred places. They found instead a consumer culture in which material desire has displa...

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This is the first book in the series THERE BEFORE YOU. Gerry Abbott has edited and woven together an amazing array of early descriptions of Burma by travellers of what you can see "there before you" by those that were "there before you". The author, who lived in Mandalay in the 1980's has researched past travellers' descriptions thoroughly , and has elegantly ti...

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From Publishers Weekly
Nicholl's ( The Fruit Palace ) new book plays on words in its title as the author slips between the borders of Thailand and Burma and the real and imagined fears encountered in a richly contradictory region--a culture as deeply entrenched in prostitution and the heroin trade as in Buddhism--and explores the frontier between fiction and reportage. Based on ...

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Travel impressions of a British botanist.

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