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Foreign Mud
Häftad, 2008
246 kr
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Foreign Mud is one of the most distinguished of Maurice Collis' works of history. This account of the struggle between the British and Chinese in the Opium War in Canton in the 1830s has a vividness that comes from 20 years of experience in the Far East as a civil servant.'The story of the Opium …
Siamese White
Häftad, 2008
251 kr
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Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is Siamese White - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that …
Trials in Burma
Häftad, 2008
198 kr
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"This is an unpretentious book, but it brings out with unusual clearness the dilemma that faces every official in an empire like our own." George OrwellTRIALS IN BURMA recounts Maurice Collis' experiences as a district magistrate in Rangoon in the late 1920s. The book recounts his gradual …
Siamese White
E-bok, 2016
137 kr
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Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is Siamese White - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that …
Trials in Burma
E-bok, 2015
137 kr
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"This is an unpretentious book, but it brings out with unusual clearness the dilemma that faces every official in an empire like our own." George OrwellTrials in Burma recounts Maurice Collis' experiences as a district magistrate in Rangoon in the late 1920s. The book recounts his gradual …
Land of the Great Image: Historical Narrative
Häftad, 1985
276 kr
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A hybrid of history and biography, Maurice Collis’s The Land of the Great Image concerns a little-known Portuguese friar abroad in early seventeenth-century Asia. The book chronicles the great diplomatic coup of Friar Manrique’s career, opening the kingdom of Arakan, now Burma (land of the “great …
Cortés and Montezuma
Häftad, 1999
256 kr
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Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felthimself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the firstadvanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. ForMontezuma, leader of the Mexicans, April 21, 1519 (known in theirsophisticated astronomical …
Land of the Great Image - Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan
Häftad, 2007
349 kr
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Leading With Nobility and Honour: Leadership With Principle and Values
E-bok, 2018
85 kr
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In short story format this book examines leadership in the context of the Charlemagne Code of Chivalry and covers a range of problems Leaders may face in their daily working lifes. The choices Leaders make will determine their level of integrity and how well they will be trusted by those they lead.
Leading with Nobility and Honour
Leadership with Principle and Values
Häftad, 2018
183 kr
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She Was a Queen: Historical Novel
Häftad, 1991
151 kr
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She was indeed a Queen. Born a peasant in thirteenth-century Burma, Queen Saw––young, beautiful, and extremely intelligent––reigned beside two kings. Everything luxuriantly cruel or voluptuously lovely swirled around the royal White Umbrella: mandarins, oracle-eating tigers, murdersome intrigue, …
Foreign Mud
History
Häftad, 2002
174 kr
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Another enduring work by the brilliant historian Maurice Collis. First published in 1946 and long out of print, Foreign Mud is a marvelous historical reconstruction of the events surrounding the illegal trade of opium in Canton during the 1830s and the Opium Wars between Britain and China that …
Land of The Great Image
Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan
Inbunden, 2023
1018 kr
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This volume is based on the memoirs of the Augustinian friar Sebastien Manrique’s expedition to South and Southeast Asia from ad 1590-1600. The biographical account begins with the intricate details about the Portuguese colony of Goa, which Manrique calls ‘Golden Goa’. The author narrates …
Siamese White
Inbunden, 2023
1103 kr
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The book is about the career of Samuel White during his stay in the Siam region, which is the modern-day Thailand. White was declared the ruler of Siam under James II of England. The book contains a description of the Anglo-Siamese War, which was conducted in the year 1687-88, which was between the …
