Excerpt from In the Land of Pagodas A little party of eager missionaries, we lined the rail of the Lunka as she plowed her way through the yellow waters of the Gulf of Martaban. Beckoned to the Orient to answer insistent calls from newly opened fields, we were at last on the very threshold of the "silken East." Home ties had been strained, and were beginning to lose their pull, while our eyes were longing to catch the first glimpse of the land of our adoption. The view was not assuring - as to scenery. Our expectant gaze met low mud banks rising out of the delta flood, a closer look descrying them fringed with palm trees, whose spindling trunks crisscrossed on the horizon line and lifted wavy tufts into the shimmering heat waves of the late afternoon. Our steamer slowly swung in a gigantic arc up toward a broad opening in the interminable flats. The sea-gulls, welcomers to every coast, wheeled and screamed about our heads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah In every large tree there lives a Nat, and it is a custom very strictly adhered to that before any tree can be touched the permission of the spirit must be asked and obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Pagoda Shadows: Studies From Life in China HE conversion of China is the heaviest piece of work now left for the Church of Christ to do. No where else on the globe does there exist a compact or homogeneous population of anything like the same extent. The future Church of China will be in mere bulk the greatest branch ever known of the Church universal. But its importance will not be measured by its bulk alone. The Chinese are pretty sure to have a main part to play in the future of Asia. Those who possess the best acquaintance with the farther East, or are best able to forecast its probable development, are of opinion that this swarming Chinese stock, patient, industrious, frugal, ready to migrate, and able to thrive where others starve, is destined to be (next, perhaps, to the anglo-american) a predominant element in the lands that are washed by the Pacific Ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Book of Cambridge Verse Nevertheless, after all deductions have been made, how much true poetry is yet left! He must be hard to please who cannot find intense enjoyment in the Eclogues of Phineas Fletcher, in Cowley's epitaph on Harvey, in the Miltonic stanzas of Gray's Installation Ode, in a score of other pieces, grave, quaint, or classical in their allusive ness of phrasing. Especially grateful must we be to the number of poets, of exquisite feeling and easy mastery of form, who during the last fifty or sixty years have enriched the language with delicate and elegant verse, from which it has been only too difficult to choose because its quantity is so great and its merit so even. Of this we trust we have given a tolerably adequate selection but it would have been easy to multiply it fourfold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

***The Burma Cookbook has won the Gourmand World Cookbooks Award in Thailand*** A lavishly photographed cookbook and historic travelogue, tracing contemporary and colonial Burmese dishes over the past century. With its rich traditions of empire, "The Burma Cookbook" highlights the best of present-day Myanmar, including foods of its immigrant populations - from the subcontinent, down the Malay peninsula, and Britain itself. The authors spent some ten years researching the book, while organising and hosting culinary tours to uncover the country's most popular dishes. The authors had exclusive access to The Strand Hotel's collection of historic menus, pictures and photos, while contemporary photography by Morrison Polkinghorne portrays Myanmar street life. AUTHOR: Robert Carmack writes regularly on food and travel, and is the author of four books; his last two were on Thai and Vietnamese cooking, and have been in continuous publication for well over a decade. He and partner Morrison Polkinghorne tour regularly to Southeast Asia, hosting culinary journeys through their companies Globetrotting Gourmet and Morrison is an internationally recognised textile designer and authority on Southeast Asian weaving. SELLING POINTS: * 175 tested and proven recipes, all authentic and easy to prepare * Not just a cookbook: Introductory chapters about Myanmar and its history, plus speciality subject articles interspersed, from Tea Houses, Scott Market, Local Etiquette, and 2000-year old Shwe Dagon Pagoda * Historical quotes from contemporary travellers interspersed throughout * An illustrated chapter of local ingredients, with shopping substitutes for international readers * Recipe measurements interchangeable in metric, UK and US imperial Because of the recipes' diversity, this is a cookbook for everyone: Europeans and Americans unfamiliar with Eastern ingredients, and equally for Asians wanting to explore Myanmar's authentic culinary influences 343 illustrations www.burmacookbook.com www.GlobetrottingGourmet.com www.AsianFoodTours.com

Excerpt from The Land of the Tatami: Travels in Japan To be hated it needs but to be seen - then loved - then caressed. And, oh! How comfortable it is. The little rascal sees the baby born and the Old grandfather die on his bosom. He is all things to all men. In sober truth, from the holiest of Temples, in silent Worship, to the wildest orgies Of sake and geisha, he is the constant and faithful companion. With reverence he is trodden by bare but always clean feet shoes he does not tolerate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.