Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, ” Burmese Days” describes both indigenous corruption & Imperial bigotry, when `after all, natives were natives
- interesting, no doubt, but finally only a `subject` people, an inferior people with black faces`. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club. While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of `solitary hell`, romance & marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the `lie` of the `pukka sahib pose`.
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Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, ” Burmese Days” describes both indigenous corruption & Imperial bigotry, when `after all, natives were natives
- interesting, no doubt, but finally only a `subject` people, an inferior people with black faces`. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is European patronage: membership of the hitherto all-white Club. While Flory prevaricates, beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen arrives in Upper Burma from Paris. At last, after years of `solitary hell`, romance & marriage appear to offer Flory an escape from the `lie` of the `pukka sahib pose`.
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Ideal for travellers of all ages who are looking for a reliable & up-to-date Burmese phrase book, it contains all the phrases you really need when you are in Myanmar. This is a brand new language to the Berlitz bestselling phrase book series with useful cultural & travel tips written by local authors, a two-way dictionary & an essential grammar & pronunciation guide, devised by our expert professor of Burmese studies. Other features include a fresh, crisp design & user-friendly layout with eye-catching colour-coding & logical categories. ...

The Lonely Planet Burmese Phrasebook is not only an extensive list of useful phrases, but also an ideal tool to start getting to grips with a language & beginning two-way communication. Containing excellent sections on language basics such as numbers, question phrases, dates, phrase construction, grammar & pronunciation, as well as containing concise but well-rounded two-way dictionaries, Lonely Planet phrasebooks enable you to quickly & confidently construct your own phrases in addition to those given. The given phrases cover all the essential travel & tourism categories such as transport, communications, business meetings & accommodation, as well as in-depth categories such as health, food & social interaction. The phrasebooks are designed to enable more than just simple question-answer communication, allowing the start of two-way conversations
- putting you comfortably on your way to learning the language & understanding its speakers. True to Lonely Planet
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Burn After Writing
- welcome to the Book of You. This is your Black Dossier. Hidden in the secret compartment of your world. For
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A Brutalised Victim in the Wilds: A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She`s been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off. A Lone Voice: Two years earlier internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son, Jonas, in a domestic fire. As he returns to work, physically & emotionally scarred, Henning struggles to escape this past & to be taken seriously again as a reporter
- by his colleagues, his ex-wife & the police. A Mystery Ignited: Told to cover the story of the woman in the tent, he finds an increasingly dangerous trail &, despite an early arrest, he is convinced that the story is more complex than the police think...
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A Brutalised Victim in the Wilds: A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She's been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off. A Lone Voice: Two years earlier internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son, Jonas, in a domestic fire. As he returns to work, physically & emotionally scarred, Henning struggles to escape this past & to be taken seriously again as a reporter
- by his colleagues, his ex-wife & the police. A Mystery Ignited: Told to cover the story of the woman in the tent, he finds an increasingly dangerous trail &, despite an early arrest, he is convinced that the story is more complex than the police think...
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Burnham-on-Sea in 1929 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the seaside town of Burnham, which added `on-Sea` to its name in 1917. Most of the town is covered, from Sea View Road southward to Pillsmouth Farm, & inland to Rosewood Farm & Burnham Rhyne. Features include the Somerset & Dorset Railway with station, Burnham Brewery, pier, Convent, Court House, Manor Farm, St Andrew`s church, Esplanade Pavilion, High Street, River Parrett, The Hall, Manor House, & the town centre shown in detail with individual houses neatly delineated. On the reverse is a commercial directory of Burnham. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Burnhope in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Tthe map is double-sided. The main map covers the village itself &

Includes:: St John`s church, Burnhope Wagonway, & Burnhope Colliery
- Fortune & Annie Pits. Fell Pit with its own wagonway is also included, as is Ibbetson`s Sike Quarry. The map extends north to Burnhope Engine, east to what is now the hamlet of Peartree. Also included are Holmside Hall, Holmside New Hall & the area now known as Little Holmside. On the reverse is a large section of the adjacent sheet 12.14 which extends coverage north to Morrowedge Quarry, South Moor & (at the top of the map) South Moor Colliery
- Hedley Pit. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.



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Flames & funerals, circus feats & seduction, neighbours & nakedness: a sparkling historical drama from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Uprooting from their quiet Dorset village to the carnal streets of London, young Jem Kellaway & his family feel far from home. The Kellaways struggle to fi nd their place in a tumultuous city, alive with repercussions from the blood-splattered French Revolution. Luckily streetwise Maggie Butterfi eld is on hand to show Jem the ropes. Together they encounter the neighbour they`ve been warned about: radical poet & artist William Blake. Jem & Maggie`s passage from innocence to experience becomes the very stuff of poetic inspiration. ...