Buy this book on-line MYINT-U,THANT: : THE River of Lost Footsteps - HISTORIES OF BURMALONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,2007. ISBN 9780571217557.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1-10.] FINE+/FINE+.Wrapped,protected and then stored from day of issue/release - so an unread - apart from my own collation,and a minimally handled copy.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with pinkish-brown and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean but lightly aged; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's plain maroon paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a maroon+white striped headband,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xii-xivpp+4- 361pp [paginated] includes a preface,13 chapters,8pp b/w illus reproductions and contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp178/9,and notes.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,contents list/table, b/w map of Burma,acknowledgements as last page, and 6pp blanks at rear.
For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma - through sanctions and boycotts - only to see an apparent slide towards even harsher dictatorship.But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about the present and even its future? In 'The River of Lost Footsteps',Thant Myint-U relates the story of modern Burma,in part through a telling of his own family's history,in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical,dramatic and appalling. His maternal grandfather: U Thant,rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become Secretary General of the United Nations in the 1960's.And on his father's side,the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries.Through their stories and others,he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world,from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism,the devastation of WW2,and a sixty-year civil war that continues today (then 2007) and is the longest-running conflict anywhere in the world.
'The River of Lost Footsteps' is a work both personal and global: a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling.
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