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An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah

An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah

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Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 04 hours and 22 minutes

Language: English

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)

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