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An English Girl’s First Impressions of Burmah

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Reading vs Travelling

At a time when the peoples of Myanmar are suffering at the hands of a ruthless junta perpetrating atrocities against civilians and hell-bent on staying in power at any cost, visiting the country is unimaginable. Reading, however, is always an option, and maybe this is the right moment to rediscover An English Girl’s First Impressions of Burmah, the travel account written at the end of the 19th century by Beth Ellis.


Remyo aka Maymyo aka Pyin U Lwin

The Maymyo that Beth Ellis describes was still under construction and had not yet become the fashionable hill station of British Burma frequented by George Orwell in the 1920s, Maurice Collis in the 1930s, Norman Lewis in the 1950s or Paul Theroux in the 1970s.


A Refreshing Travel Account

If she is undeniably a child of her time, there is nothing condescending about Beth Ellis who mocks everyone she meets with equal impertinence. With genuine candour and a brilliant knack for the comical, Beth Ellis brings us a refreshing account, both insightful and more biting than first appears, of the way she experienced a country subjected to British rule.


An Annotated Edition

This new edition also contains:

  • foreword.
  • note on the text.
  • chronology of the author.
  • A set of explanatory notes clarifying Burmese, English, Hindi and Anglo-Indian terms and references unfamiliar to modern readers from across the world.
  • glossary.


Pour les francophones, il existe une version française de ce récit au format ePub dans la boutique, ainsi qu'une version papier livre de poche sur Amazon.

Vous obtiendrez un fichier ZIP (441KB)