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I wanted to say: Thailand and Myanmar were blank pages. We knew there might be areas with rough roads, but that was the limit of our fears. Familiarity reasserted itself north of the border — where the mass-market tourism of Phuket came laced with elements of home-from-home.

Then suddenly, everybody in the carriage had a rucksack, a bashed-up guidebook and a London accent. But even here, south-east Asia revealed its soul. Everybody was wearing black. I had the story on my phone.


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It had been posted — at first — by a Chinese news agency. It had such an impact on people. Postcolonial studies can have few richer specimens to tease apart in the space of 51 lines: But a century ago what gave Kipling most trouble from his readers were his liberties with geography. According to the memoir the author wrote at the end of his life, the complaints came mainly from pedantic Americans on cruise ships who had become familiar with a shortened version of the poem after it was set to music as a song, to become a hit as sheet music and, from , as a gramophone record.

When Kipling bought this house in , he was already at 36 the most famous writer in the Anglosphere, with Kim and The Jungle Book behind him and the Nobel prize only five years ahead. Later we saw local historian Geoff Hutchinson pretending to be Kipling and making a pretty decent job of it: But there is always, eventually, an awkwardness with Kipling: Hutchinson got round it by having his Kipling say something to the effect that he knew his views grew out of different time — though even in that different time, Kipling was unusually committed to mystical ideas of national character and destiny.

The Road to Mandalay

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Old school writing and dialogue that was often stilted and difficult to believe - and a bit sappy. Reading this book felt like watching an old movie.

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I was looking for books on Burma so this was relevant and worth the quick read. Feb 21, Susan rated it liked it.


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This is an older book and rather dated in its writing.