In 1914, the British plant-collector and explorer, Kingdon-Ward, undertook an expedition of some ...

Written to meet the need of students and teachers of the Thai language for information on the mor...

With its dramatic vistas, its attractive, hospitable people and its rich cultural traditions, the...

Inspired by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel's accounts of the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americ...

The Gentleman in the Parlour is Maugham's tale of travel through Burma, Indochina and Siam in the...

The present volume provides an edited and corrected transcription the original Tibetan textual au...

Captain Robinson, completing a posting as a young British administrator in remote northern Burma,...

A systematic study of the Tibetan charms and amulets, mantras and cakras that have afforded their...

This account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward's 1933 expedition to the southeaster...

This book, a revised edition of one of this renowned scholar's primary early works, describes the...

The old world of traditional Tibet had its few windows to the outside world slammed shut when Chi...

A new edition of a classic on Malay weaponry and war, originally published in 1936 in an extremel...