Arriving in Mandalay in 1887, soon after the British annexation, a Wesleyan missionary describes the journey up-country, the city and its people, bamboo houses and teak posts, the pacification of the countryside, and British influence in the Shan States, alongside an account of his own mission’s work. His outlook is that of an imperial Victorian.
A first-hand picture of Upper Burma in the first years of British rule. Download the free EPUB.