Teak-Wallah : the adventures of a young Englishman in Thailand in the 1920s / by Reginald Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Reginald, 1894-1950.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teak--Thailand.

Teak.

Thailand--Description and travel.

Thailand.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 279 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Summary:

Here is a bold and entertaining account of the life of a European teak inspector working in the heart of the Thai countryside in the 1920s. Beginning with a description of his voyage, Campbell conveys the adventure and the loneliness, the beauty and the terror, that was the White Man's lot and sprinkles his narrative with pithy anecdotes about his various encounters. Teak-Wallah is an evocative tale of a world that still exists, but in which the European no longer has a role.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Hodder & Stoughton, c1935.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0195826485

OCLC:

14442855