A01=Maurice Collis
Author_Maurice Collis
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Product details
- ISBN 9788119139545
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book is about the career of Samuel White during his stay in the Siam region, which is the modern-day Thailand. White was declared the ruler of Siam under James II of England. The book contains a description of the Anglo-Siamese War, which was conducted in the year 1687-88, which was between the English East India Company and the Kingdom of Siam. The book also contains a letter from White related to his kinsmen, preserved in the Bath Municipal Library, which dates back to 1683.
Maurice Collis was an English officer and a profound writer. He served as an administrator in Burma, which at that time was a British colony. After entering into the Indian Civil Service, he served in Palestine in 1917. He was appointed as a district commissioner in Arakan in the 1920s, and in 1930 as a district magistrate in Rangoon. He is the author of several memoirs, biographies, history, fiction, drama, and other miscellaneous topics. His works include the famous work Trials in Burma; Stanley Spencer: A Biography; The Grand Peregrination: Being the Life and Adventures of Fernão Mendes Pinto, etc.
