• Diverse and fascinating stories of people who made Maymyo their summer escape • Much previously unpublished material, including photographs, cartoons and personal drawings and watercolors of the landscape and local flowers To many the words Hill Station are evocative of an exotic and exciting vision when the subjects of the British Colonial Government gloried in the Hill Stations of India and Burma. Beautifully constructed holiday towns built at 3,000 feet or more where people flocked to escape the heats of the plains. High up the Shan hills of east Burma stood Maymyo. This book tells the stories of the people for whom Maymyo really was a heaven 'lost on the clouds'.
Language
English
Pages
200
Format
Paperback
Release
June 15, 2023
ISBN 13
9786164510760
Maymyo Days: Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station
• Diverse and fascinating stories of people who made Maymyo their summer escape • Much previously unpublished material, including photographs, cartoons and personal drawings and watercolors of the landscape and local flowers To many the words Hill Station are evocative of an exotic and exciting vision when the subjects of the British Colonial Government gloried in the Hill Stations of India and Burma. Beautifully constructed holiday towns built at 3,000 feet or more where people flocked to escape the heats of the plains. High up the Shan hills of east Burma stood Maymyo. This book tells the stories of the people for whom Maymyo really was a heaven 'lost on the clouds'.