Eighteen Hundred Miles On a Burmese Tat. Through Burmah, Siam, and the Eastern Shan States by an Ordinary British Subaltern -
Lieutenant G. J. Younghusband
1888 - W. H. Allen & Co., London - First Edition
‘The following pages give an account of a journey made during six months' leave in the beginning of 1887. They do not profess to any literary merit whatever, but are merely a faithful record of new countries and new nations, as seen with the eyes of an ORDINARY BRITISH SUBALTERN.‘
The journey was made on horseback through Burma and Thailand, from Moulmein (Mawlamyine), 300 kilometres south of Rangoon (Yangon) north to Kengtung on the borders of China, Thailand, and Laos, and then all the way south to Bangkok via Chiang Mai. All outlined on the fold out ‘Skeleton Map of Siam’ to the rear Younghusband is an entertaining and observant writer, and his amateur sketches illustrate the book throughout, these are spread over thirteen full page plates (one of which folds out, and one is a duplicate).  More Details
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