First published in 1935, this is Somerset Maugham's account of a journey he made from Rangoon to Haiphong - by river to Mandalay, on horseback through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, and onwards by sea. The book includes travel impressions and autobiographical confidences.

First published in 1935, this is Somerset Maugham's account of a journey he made from Rangoon to Haiphong - by river to Mandalay, on horseback through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, and onwards by sea. The book includes travel impressions and autobiographical confidences.