THE TROUSER PEOPLE Andrew Marshall - A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire (Myanmar)

THE TROUSER PEOPLE by Andrew Marshall is part travelogue, part history, part reportage, this book is an account of Sir George Scott, the Victorian adventurer who hacked, bullied and charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish British colonial rule in Burma.

THIS IS A USED HARDCOVER BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION: clean with light reading wear to edges and dust jacket; some creasing to dust jacket flaps; pages are clean and aging lightly with little wear; nice clean boards. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: An unforgettable adventure story of two journeys, one hundred years apart, into the untraveled heart of Burma. . Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People is an enormously appealing and vivid account of Sir George Scott, the unsung Victorian adventurer who hacked, bullied, and charmed his way through uncharted jungle to help establish British colonial rule in Burma. Born in Scotland in 1851, Scott was a die-hard imperialist with a fondness for gargantuan pith helmets and a bluffness of expression that bordered on the Pythonesque. But, as Andrew Marshall discovered, he was also a writer and photographer of rare sensibility. He spent a lifetime documenting the tribes who lived in Burma's vast wilderness and is the author of The Burman, published in 1882 and still in print today. He also not only mapped the lawless frontiers of this “geographical nowhere”-the British Empire's easternmost land border with China-but he widened the imperial goalposts in another way: he introduced soccer to Burma, where today it is a national obsession. Inspired by Scott's unpublished diaries, Andrew Marshall retraces the explorer's intrepid footsteps from the moldering colonial splendor of Rangoon to the fabled royal capital of Mandalay. In the process he discovers modern Burma, a hermit nation misruled by a brutal military dictatorship, its soldiers, like the British colonialists before them, nicknamed “the trouser people” by the country's sarong-wearing civilians. Wonderfully observed, mordantly funny, and skillfully recounted, The Trouser People is an offbeat and thrilling journey through Britain's lost heritage-and a powerful expos of Burma's modern tragedy.

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Code: SKU1896

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Hardcover with Dustjacket

Pages: 307

Published: 2002 by Counterpoint, USA

ISBN: 1582431205

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