An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, credited to Beth Ellis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah by Beth Ellis. Read in English by Carol Fullerton-Samsel. An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a well-edited, turn-of-the-century journal documenting a young woman’s visit to Burma. The account documents her ocean voyage to Rangoon, and her stay in a small, jungle-embedded, European community in Remyo. The author, who travelled to Asia alone to visit her brother, is quick to laugh at her own exaggerated fears. She gives us a glimpse into the less-than-glamorous lives to Myanmar’s British occupiers. The book was published in 1899, just thirteen years after the conclusion of the third Anglo-Burmese war, when Britain took formal control of Myanmar and made it a province of India. (Summary by Carol Fullerton-Samsel)

Recording facts

• Recording title: An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah
• Author credits: Beth Ellis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:22:14

Catalogue topics

• journal
• diary
• historical
• British
• Burma
• myanmar
• rangoon
• remyo

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction and I. The Voyage — 29:29
2. 02 - II. Rangoon — 19:40
3. 03 - III. The Road to Mandalay — 15:43
4. 04 - IV. The Journey to the HIlls — 27:46
5. 05 - V. The Up-country Station — 17:16
6. 06 - VI. The European Inhabitants — 40:54
7. 07 - VII. The Burmese — 27:16
8. 08 - VIII. Entertaining — 10:28
9. 09 - IX. Adventures — 15:16
10. 10 - X. Beasts and Reptiles — 26:23
11. 11 - XI. Sport — 20:39
12. 12 - XII. The Return — 11:24

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