The Snaking River

Faraway Lands

Reeks: Faraway Lands

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  • Discover
  • the
  • amazing
  • wonders
  • of
  • 1930s
  • Burma
  • (now
  • Myanmar)
  • the
  • fascinating
  • fabulously
  • rich
  • country
  • that
  • few
  • have
  • travelled. Teeming
  • with
  • the
  • joy
  • and
  • abundance
  • of
  • life,
  • the
  • great
  • Irrawaddy
  • river
  • is
  • the
  • life-blood
  • of
  • Myanmar,
  • the
  • country
  • once
  • known
  • as
  • Burma.
  • From
  • its
  • myriad
  • of
  • sources
  • high
  • up
  • in
  • the
  • jungle
  • clad
  • slopes
  • of
  • the
  • mountainous
  • hills
  • bordering
  • China,
  • the
  • 'River
  • of
  • Blessings'
  • winds
  • a
  • thousand
  • miles
  • south
  • to
  • its
  • fertile
  • delta
  • that
  • opens
  • into
  • the
  • Bay
  • of
  • Bengal. To
  • a
  • little
  • boy
  • conceived
  • in
  • the
  • Kachin
  • Hills
  • and
  • living
  • by
  • the
  • great
  • river
  • for
  • his
  • first
  • five
  • years,
  • the
  • country's
  • fascinating
  • wildness,
  • creatures,
  • culture
  • and
  • essence
  • burns
  • deep
  • into
  • his
  • character,
  • shaping
  • the
  • whole
  • of
  • his life.
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