Full name: The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire

Author: Andrew Marshall Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Travel, Non Fiction Culture: Asia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781582432427 1582432422

Andrew Marshall has written an unforgettable adventure story, the wry account of two journeys into the untraveled heart of Burma. Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People recounts the story of George Scott, the eccentric British explorer, photographer, adventurer, and later Colonial Administrator of Burma, who introduced the Empire's best game (soccer!) to Burmese natives and to the forbidden Wa state of headhunters, who were similarly enthusiastic about it. The second, contrasting journey is Marshall's own, taking the same dangerous path one hundred years later in a country now devastated by colonial incompetence, war, and totalitarianism. Wonderfully observed, mordantly funny, and skillfully recounted, this is journalistic travel writing at its best. Similar books: The River of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin Where China Meets India by Thant Myint-U Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Maximum City by Suketu Mehta Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds by Eric Enno Tamm Everything Is Broken by Emma Larkin Under the Dragon by Rory MacLean Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi In Europe by Geert Mak A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski South with Endurance by Frank Hurley Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester