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Cover: 9781849955324 | The Fabulous Flotilla: Scotland's Adventure on the Rivers of Burma
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The Fabulous Flotilla
Scotland's Adventure on the Rivers of Burma
Taschenbuch von Paul Strachan
Sprache: Englisch

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The 'Fabulous Flotilla', called the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in colonial Burma, was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. It was an entirely Scottish enterprise with nearly all its investors, management and ship's officers drawn from Scotland. Fascinating personalities emerge from Strachan's descriptions of Irrawaddy commanders and the flotilla's key players. Renamed Myanmar in 1997, Burma is Scotland's 'lost colony' and the Scottish connection is little remembered today due to Burma's half a century of post-war isolation. In its 1920s heyday Burma had the highest concentration of Scots anywhere in the world, outside of Scotland, with the exception of Canada. Scots were everywhere in Burma, running everything, and even their Burmese servants spoke in 'broad' Scots. The Fabulous Flotilla provides a revealing record of this remarkable era in Burma's history and past Scottish endeavour - a jewel of a story that may soon be lost.
The 'Fabulous Flotilla', called the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in colonial Burma, was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. It was an entirely Scottish enterprise with nearly all its investors, management and ship's officers drawn from Scotland. Fascinating personalities emerge from Strachan's descriptions of Irrawaddy commanders and the flotilla's key players. Renamed Myanmar in 1997, Burma is Scotland's 'lost colony' and the Scottish connection is little remembered today due to Burma's half a century of post-war isolation. In its 1920s heyday Burma had the highest concentration of Scots anywhere in the world, outside of Scotland, with the exception of Canada. Scots were everywhere in Burma, running everything, and even their Burmese servants spoke in 'broad' Scots. The Fabulous Flotilla provides a revealing record of this remarkable era in Burma's history and past Scottish endeavour - a jewel of a story that may soon be lost.
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Paul Strachan comes from a long line of Glasgow shipbuilders and first visited Burma in 1981 to work for a Scottish company building power stations there. In 1995 he revived the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and restored an original Clyde-built steamer, a story he tells in The Pandaw Story. He has written books about the Buddhist temples of ancient Pagan and living and travelling in Burma in the 1980s.Author hometown: Perth
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781849955324
ISBN-10: 1849955328
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Strachan, Paul
Hersteller: Whittles
Maße: 238 x 169 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Strachan
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2023
Gewicht: 0,46 kg
Artikel-ID: 122448518
Über den Autor
Paul Strachan comes from a long line of Glasgow shipbuilders and first visited Burma in 1981 to work for a Scottish company building power stations there. In 1995 he revived the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and restored an original Clyde-built steamer, a story he tells in The Pandaw Story. He has written books about the Buddhist temples of ancient Pagan and living and travelling in Burma in the 1980s.Author hometown: Perth
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781849955324
ISBN-10: 1849955328
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Strachan, Paul
Hersteller: Whittles
Maße: 238 x 169 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Strachan
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2023
Gewicht: 0,46 kg
Artikel-ID: 122448518
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