{"id":19291,"date":"2023-07-14T10:05:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T09:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/?p=19291"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:05:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T09:05:47","slug":"from-myanmar-to-georgia-highlighting-the-breadth-of-the-societys-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/from-myanmar-to-georgia-highlighting-the-breadth-of-the-societys-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"From Myanmar to Georgia – highlighting the breadth of the Society’s activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday 29th June we welcomed Stephen Simmons for a launch of his book,\u00a0Maymyo Days: Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station.\u00a0<\/em>The book relates the forgotten lives of people who summered at a Burma Hill Station including Henry Morshead, a Royal Engineer who got to within a shout of the summit of Everest with George Mallory, Princesses Ma Lat and Yadana Nat Mai \u2013 Shan Princesses, General Po Yay \u2013 a Karen who won an MC in Burma during the war and who was eventually forcibly displaced by Ne Win, \u2018Elephant Bill\u2019 of the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, Charlotte Wheeler Cuffe who painted orchids and rhododendron in Burma, a superb, \u2018amateur\u2019 artist whose work is deposited at Glasnevin Botanical Gardens in Dublin. We still have four books available at the discounted price of \u00a330. If you would like one please contact info(at)royalasiaticsociety.org. And if you would like to hear the talk it is available on our YouTube channel:<\/p>\n