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Burma: Land and Culture

Burma, since 1989 renamed Myanmar, is a deeply Buddhist country with a magnificent cultural heritage.

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	Inventory of Monuments at Pagan [Vol 4]
	Pichard, Pierre
	Wisdom Price £76.50 (save 10%)
	At Pagan there are over 2000 religious monuments spread over an area of sixteen square miles. The "Inventory" consists of one or several pages for...
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	Mandalay
	Travels From the Golden City
	Strachan, Paul
	Wisdom Price £9.75 (save 35%)
	Mandalay describes life in the old capital that remains the spiritual heart of Burma. In 1986 art historian Paul Strachan was permitted a year's visa to study and travel in Burma....
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	Myanmar [Burma]
	Lonely Planet
	Cummings, Joe and Clark, Michael
	Wisdom Price £11.69 (save 10%)
	The Lonely Planet...
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	Sanskrit Buddhism in Burma
	Ray , Niharranjan
	Wisdom Price £7.36 (save 33%)
	A fascinating study on the influence of Mahayana and even tantric Buddhism on Burma, a land known more for its Theravada Buddhism. Inluded are chapters on the Ari sect...
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	Inventory of Monuments at Pagan [Vol 3]
	Pichard, Pierre
	Wisdom Price £76.50 (save 10%)
	At Pagan there are over 2000 religious monuments spread over an area of sixteen square miles. The "Inventory" consists of one or several pages for...
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	Burma: Encountering the Land of the Buddhas
	Ellis, Everada
	Wisdom Price £26.99
	This handsome book captures fascinating images of the Shwedagon Pagoda, and the bustle of Rangoon, the grandeur of the Irrawaddy, the...
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	Freedom from Fear
	Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
	Aung San Suu Kyi
	Wisdom Price £7.49 (save 25%)
	Aung San Suu Kyi, human rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy was detained in 1989 by the ruling military junta, following an...
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	Inventory of Monuments at Pagan [Vol 2]
	Pichard, Pierre
	Wisdom Price £76.50 (save 10%)
	At Pagan there are over 2000 religious monuments spread over an area of sixteen square miles. The "Inventory" consists of one or several pages for...
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	Inventory of Monuments at Pagan [Vol 6]
	Pichard, Pierre
	Wisdom Price £76.50 (save 10%)
	At Pagan there are over 2000 religious monuments spread over an area of sixteen square miles. The "Inventory" consists of one or several pages for...
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	Thangliena: A Life of T H Lewin
	Whitehead, John
	Wisdom Price £18.75 (save 25%)
	Thomas Hernert Lewin (1839-1916) was a great soldier-administrator in the wild hills of India's NE frontier. Not just a man of action, Lewin was an...
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	Birmanie
	Encountering the Land of the Buddhas
	Ellis, Everada
	Wisdom Price £10.79 (save 40%)
	The French language...
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	Letters from Burma
	Winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize
	Aung San Suu Kyi
	Wisdom Price £7.79 (save 22%)
	In these `letters' begun soon after her release from house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi evokes Burma's seasons and scenery, customs and festivities and...
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	Burmese Nationalist Movements [Hardback]
	1940 - 1948
	U Maung Maung
	Wisdom Price £27.00 (save 25%)
	An authoritative new study of a crucial period of modern Burma's history, presenting a fresh, and at times controversial, account of...
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	Wonderland of Burmese Legends
	Khin Myo Chit
	Wisdom Price £11.25 (save 10%)
	A collection of legends of spirits, dragons, ogres and pagodas from Rangoon, Mandalay, Sagaing, Prome and...
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	Burmese Nationalist Movements 1940-1948
	U Maung Maung
	Wisdom Price £10.08 (save 35%)
	An authoritative new study of a crucial period of modern Burma's history, presenting a fresh, and at times controversial, account of the Burmese...
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	Lady and the Peacock [Paperback]
	The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
	Popham, Peter
	Wisdom Price £5.84 (save 35%)
	New paperback edition. The definitive biography of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pro-democracy leader. This major new life story...
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	Voice of Hope
	Aung San Suu Kyi: Conversations with Alan Clements
	Aung San Suu Kyi
	Wisdom Price £6.39 (save 20%)
	This is a fully revised and d edition of the best collection of wide-ranging interviews with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner under...
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	Inventory of Monuments at Pagan [Vol 8]
	Monuments 2065-2834
	Pichard, Pierre
	Wisdom Price £76.50 (save 10%)
	...
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	In Farthest Burma
	The Record of an Arduous Journey of Exploration and Research Through Frontier Territory of Burma and Tibet
	Kingdom Ward, Frank
	Wisdom Price £11.38 (save 33%)
	In 1914, the renowned British plant-collector and explorer, Kingdom-Ward,...
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	Perfect Hostage
	Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma and Generals
	Wintle, Justin
	Wisdom Price £7.46 (save 17%)
	New paperback edition. Aung San Suu Kyi is a woman few men can hold a candle to - except the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Since 1988 she has...
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