Mandalay

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Excerpt from Mandalay: And Other Cities of the Past in Burma In The Silken East, I sought to present a life-like picture of Burma and its people. I was concerned there only with the things that had daily passed before my own eyes. But the Past holds the secret of the Present in its hands. In this volume, therefore, I aim at a resuscitation of the Past of Burma as it finds expression in its cities, the centres of a bygone day. So much only of the living impression of the hour is given as is necessary to the completion of the story. All countries that have a history reaching back over many centuries contain more than one city or ruin which at some time filled the place of a capital. But in Burma these past capitals are unusually numerous. Their number is partly to be ascribed to the internal conflicts which left, now one of its three leading races triumphant, now another. The Burmese, the Môn, and the Shan fought for supremacy for two thousand years, and the history of Burma is but the record of their conflicts, punctuated by invasion from without. 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.