Sent east by the Colonial Office as an official artist, A. Hugh Fisher records what he saw and sketched: Rangoon, a visit to the Sawbwa of Hsipaw, a voyage up the Irrawaddy to Bhamo, the faded royal city of Mandalay, the temple towns of southern India, Calcutta and the memorials of Cawnpore. His outlook is very much that of an Edwardian Englishman of the Empire.
Painterly travel writing for readers curious about Burma and India in the early 1900s. Download the free EPUB.