Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is ""Siamese White"" - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that old adage - truth is stranger than fiction. 'A magnificent story, full of interest and excitement, but there is more to it than that. Collis, who has lived for years on the scene of these high happenings, is able to give us a first-hand picture of a fascinating land: of a lovely archipelago, of rivers and rapids, of an immemorial track through jungles haunted by tigers and malaria' - ""Evening Standard"".

Siamese White: The Memoirs of a Gamekeeper

Travel

Maurice Collis

Asia

Eland Pub Ltd

<p>In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveler Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self - strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first - her intermittent formal education and the intense relationship of an only child with her parents, particularly her invalid mother, whom she nursed until her death. Bicycling fifty miles in a day at the age of eleven, alone, it seems only natural that her first major journey should have been to cycle to India.</p>

Wheels Within Wheels: Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

MURPHY, DERVLA

Arts & Literature

Evliya Celebi was the 17th century's most diligent, adventurous, and honest recorder, whose puckish wit and humor are laced throughout his ten-volume masterpiece. This brand new translation brings Evliya sparklingly back to life. ""This superb selection from the 'Seyahatname' introduces Evliya Celebi, who witnessed history, recorded ethnological facts scrupulously, and allowed his mind to range freely into the realsm of the fabulous providing us with an insider's depcition of the O-Henry Glassie, Professor Emeritus of Turkish Studies at Indiana University

An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi

Dankoff, Robert

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