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| Bangkok The Story of a City by Alec Waugh 2007, 201 pp., softbound 14 x 21.5 cm. ISBN-13: 978-0955010-52-1 $24.99 A fluent and affectionate portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, known to the Thais as 'the city of angels', but also of the dynasty and culture that created it. Cutting through confusion and veiled mystery, Waugh unravels the plots, coups, wars, assassinations, invasions and counter-coups of two hundred years of history as if they were this evening's gossip. This description of the genius, fascination and enduring vitality of Bangkok is told with Waugh's customary delight in life and sensual appreciation. The story is brought up-to-date with an afterword by Bruce Palling, formerly The Times correspondent in Thailand. 'A door into the heart and soul of Thailand' -- Paul Bowles '..it's hard to put down - a must read' -- Michael Holland, The Times. |
| Begums, Thugs and White Moghuls by Fanny Parkes 2005, 400 pp., softbound 14 x 21.5 cm. ISBN 0-907871-88-7 $29.95 ISBN-13: 978-0-907871-88-0 Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture. Fanny is fascinated by everything, from the trial of the thugs and the efficacy of opium on headaches to the adorning of a Hindu bride. To read her is to get as close as one can to a true picture of early colonial India - the sacred and the profane, the violent and the beautiful, the straight-laced sahibs and the more eccentric "White Mughals" who fell in love with India and did their best, like Fanny, to build bridges across cultures. |
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| The Ginger Tree: A novel by Oswald Wynd 2002 312 pp., softbound, 14 x 22 cm. ISBN 0-907871-03-8 $21.95 In 1903 Mary Mackenzie sails for China to marry the British Military Attache, a man who turns out to be every bit as chilly as the Peking Winter. During one of his many absences, Mary has an affair with a Japanese soldier, Count Kurihama, but her pregnancy is impossible to keep secret. Rejected by husband, mother and country, and forced to leave her daughter behind, Mary flees to Japan. The Ginger Tree tells the fascinating story of her survival, isolated and alone, in this alien culture. |
| Golden Earth: Travels in Burma by Norman Lewis 2003 296 pp., softbound, 14 x 21.5 cm. ISBN 0-907871-38-0 $21.95 Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breath-taking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist beliefs spare even the rats, where the Director of Prisons quotes Chaucer and where three-day theatrical shows are staged to celebrate a monk taking orders. Hitching lifts with the army and with travelling merchants, Lewis is treated to hospitality wherever he stops in this war-torn land, and reveals a country where 'the condition of the soul replaces that of the stock markets as a topic for polite conversation'. |
| Hermit Of Peking: The hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse by Hugh Trevor-Roper 1993 416 pp., softbound, 14 x 21.5 cm. ISBN 0-907871-32-1 $24.50 The trail of discovery began when Hugh Trevor-Roper received in somewhat unusual circumstances the voluminous memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, the celebrated Chinese scholar and co-author of two standard works on Chinese history. The memoirs describe a very different person from the one who had apparently lived such a respectable life until his death in 1944. Backhouse claimed that he had been intimate with many notable characters including Verlaine and Lord Rosebery, and that his many lovers (of both sexes) had included the Dowager Empress of China. It gradually became clear that the detailed, plausible and very obscene memoirs were a work of fantasy - yet a fantasy interwoven with detailed fact. Intrigued, Hugh Trevor-Roper set out to discover as much as he could about Sir Edmund Backhouse, and unearthed the story of one of the most outrageous confidence tricksters of this century. |
| An Indian Attachment by Sarah Lloyd 1984 282 pp., softbound, 14 x 21.5 cm. ISBN 0-907871-12-7 $21.95 An Indian Attachment is part travel book, part love story. Because of Sarah Lloyd's relationship with a placid, beautiful, opium-addicted Sikh, she spent two years in rural India, first in a remote mud-built Punjabi village, and then in the impoverished community of a dubious holy-man. Here she lived in a minute brick hut with living expenses of only fifty pence a day. No other outsider has been able to write so convincingly about the plight of Indian villagers. |
| Meetings with Remarkable Muslims a collection of travel writing various authors 2005, 312 pp., hardbound, 14 x 22 cm. ISBN 0-907871-64-X $39.95 Meetings with Remarkable Muslims is a collection of travel writing celebrating friendship and the chance encounters that unexpectedly enrich our lives, which shows the diversity of the modern Islamic world and the way in which it continues to inspire, bemuse and enrich the western imagination. What shines through these many stories is our common humanity - the need, indeed the urge, to earn, to love, to protect, to enjoy and to make a sense of life. All the writers have agreed to donate their royalties to buy schoolbooks for children in the Islamic world whose education has been interrupted by recent wars. The money raised will be spent equally by Education Action and BookAid International for specifically identified projects. |
| Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian by John Beames 2003, 334 pp., softbound, 14 x 21.5 cm. ISBN 0-907871-09-7 $29.95 These memoirs were discovered in the 1950s when the author's grandson was sifting material for Philip Mason's The Men Who Ruled India. Beames arrived in the sub-continent just after the Mutiny, and stayed for the next thirty-five years. Unlike most diarists of the Victorian Raj, he was completely outspoken and wrote plain lively prose. The result is probably the most vivid description of a District Officer's life in India. |
| Three Came Home A mother's ordeal in a Japanese prison camp by Agnes Keith 2002 304 pp., softbound, 14 x 22 cm. ISBN 0-907871-28-3 $21.95 When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never completely dies. Keeping notes on scraps of paper which she hides in her son's home-made toys or buries in tins, she records a mother's pain at watching her child go hungry and her poignant pride in his development within these strange confines. She also describes her captors in all their complexity. Colonel Suga, the camp commander, is an intelligent, highly educated man, at times her adversary, at others a strange ally in a distorted world. |
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