From Burma to Myanmar : on the road to Mandalay / Lydia Laube.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laube, Lydia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burma--Description and travel.

Burma.

Mandalay (Burma)--Description and travel.

Mandalay (Burma).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2015.

Summary:

Lydia Laube is no stranger to near-death experiences, including several while travelling to, from and through Myanmar, or Burma as it was known on her first trip there. As ever, Lydia takes the route less travelled as she discovers this wondrous land, with its pagodas, markets and attractions - including the world's biggest python and book.

Contents:

From Burma to Myanmar

About the author

Title page

Imprint

Contents

Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling

Maps

1 Temple bells are calling

2 Mother Love

3 The wind is in the palm trees

4 Looking eastward to the sea

5 The dawn comes up like thunder

6 By the old Moulmein pagoda

7 The mist is on the rice fields

8 Snake in a monastery

9 Malaysian detour

10 All at sea again

11 Singapore to Bangkok rail ride

12 Pyay

13 Madonna and me

14 On the road to Mandalay

15 Where the flying fishes play

16 City of dreamers

17 Jumping cats

18 The final farewell

19 Home on the Buxstar

Wakefield Press

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 18, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-74305-138-7

OCLC:

925577323