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The Land of the Great Image by Maurice Collis (1985, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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Number of Pages: 324. Author: Collis, Maurice (Author). Weight: 0.9 lbs. Publication Date: 1985-11-17. Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation.

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A hybrid of history and biography, Maurice Collis's The Land of the Great Image concerns a little-known Portuguese friar abroad in early seventeenth-century Asia. The book chronicles the great diplomatic coup of Friar Manrique's career, opening the kingdom of Arakan, now Burma (land of the "great image" of the Buddha) to the Church and to Portuguese trade, Dispatched from Goa, capital of the now almost forgotten Portuguese empire in Asia, Manrique made his way across and around the Bay of Bengal, surviving shipwreck, tigers, and pirates, to reach the court of King Thiri-thu-dhamma. And all along Manrique's way the author waits at every turn with another curiosity, another historical tidbit for the reader to relish. Collis notes how trials of the Inquisition were run (which too had set up shop in Goa); the luxury enjoyed by Europeans in the East; what was served for dinner at court; how elephant warfare was waged; and what went into a potion magically brewed to bring glory to King Thiri-thu-dhamina (the hearts of 2,000 white doves, 4,000 white cows, and 6,000 of his subjects).

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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811209725
ISBN-13
9780811209724
eBay Product ID (ePID)
951606

Product Key Features

Book Title
Land of the Great Image
Author
Maurice Collis
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Asia / Southeast Asia, Religious, Europe / Spain & Portugal, Asia / Southeast
Publication Year
1985
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
Number of Pages
324 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz

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Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
The land itself is a fantasy and a dream of strangeness. The physical pictures the author gives us are more than beautiful; they are wonderfully neat and often ironic .... The Land of the Great Image is a vivid, illuminating study written with the care and penetration that an artist as well as a historian must exercise to make the exotic past live and breathe for us.
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
85-013438
Illustrated
Yes

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