Siamese White

Informationen zum Autor Maurice Collis was born in 1889, the son of an Irish solicitor. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1911 and was posted to Burma, rising to the position of district magistrate in Rangoon in 1929, where the independence of his judgments displeased his superiors who moved him to the position of Excise Commissioner. He returned to England in 1934. He wrote over twenty books, including volumes of autobiography, travel writing, novels, histories and three plays. He died in 1973. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Collis, Collis Maurice
• Assisted by: Mauric Collis (Editor), Maurice Collis (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2008
• EAN: 9780571240869
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24086-9
• No. of pages: 314
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Thailand, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Colonialism; Englishmen; Faber Finds; Government