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            Kathie's Burma Bookshelf

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            I’m a reader and I always read about the places I visit. But I’ve never done as much background research for a trip as I’ve done for my upcoming Burma trip. Here is a list of the books we bought (haven’t finished reading all of them) for our 2009 trip. There were a number more that I tried to order, but are out of print, like Land of a Thousand Eyes.

            Guidebooks:

            Lonely Planet Myanmar (Burma), 10th Edition, May 2009
            To Myanmar with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur

            Fiction:
            The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
            The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
            Burmese Days by George Orwell
            The Flame Tree by Keith Dahlberg
            Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

            Memoirs:
            Twilight over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess by Inge Sargent
            In the Land of the Green Ghosts by Pascal Khoo Thwe

            Travel Writings:
            The Trouser People by Andrew Marshall
            Under the Dragon by Rory Maclean
            Golden Earth by Norman Lewis
            Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
            The Native Tourist: A Holiday Pilgrimage in Myanmar by Ma Thanegi

            Non-Fiction/History:
            River of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U
            Down the Rat Hole by Edith Mirante
            Perfect Hostage: A Life of Ang San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle
            Beyond the Last Village by Alan Rabinowitz
            Pagan by Paul Strachan
            Mandalay by Paul Strachan
            Letters from Burma by Ang San Suu Kyi
            The Shan Conundrum in Burma by Henri-Andre Aye
            The Burman: His Life and Notions by Shway Yoe (pen name of James George Scott)

            Photography:
            Visions of Myanmar by JamesMuecke

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