Rangoon
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rangoon, burma, ppwith detailed descriptions of 17 main temple complexes (including sculptures)temple sites at: nyaung-u * pagan * myinkaba * thiripyitsaya * minnanthu * pwasaware you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikion the thatbyinnyu-temple - paper cover - 50x37 (oblong)pictorial guide to paganplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storewith over 50 illustrations (some in color) - softcover - 25x18rangoon, department of higher educationarchitectural drawings of temples in paganbuying more lots from asiapl: mailing costs will be adjusted (depending on total weight) and restituted in euros ! read more
35 €
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Purchased this about 7 years ago from rangoon in burmait is hand crafted rose wood which sits on an intricate hands base
25 €
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It is top end of dorema rangoon current website for ÂŁ mm steel frame easygrip fittingsexcellent condition reason for sale is because it is 30 cms too deep for new pitch and park is fussydorema garda xl270 awning has been used for only one seasonit has two additional roof poles and front support poles because of its size,qualitycraftmanship and great fabric read more
400 €
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But belle is haunted by a mystery from the past - a 25 year old newspaper clipping found in her parents' belongings after their death, saying that the hattons were leaving rangoon after the disappearance of their baby daughter, elvirabelle is desperate to find out what happened to the sister she never knew she had - but when she starts asking questions, she is confronted with unsettling rumours, malicious gossip, and outright threatsoliver, an attractive, easy-going american journalist, promises to help her, but an anonymous note tells her not to trust those closest to herbelle survives riots, intruders, and bomb attacks - but nothing will stop her in her mission to uncover the truth'i was gripped, moved and utterly in thrall to this deeply emotional and compelling tale' kate furnivallbelle hatton has embarked upon an exciting new life far from home: a glamorous job as a nightclub singer in s burma, with a host of sophisticated new friends and admirerscan she trust her growing feelings for oliver? is her sister really dead? and could there be a chance belle might find her? see oxfam website for delivery information read morea daughter determined to uncover the truthoxfam bookshop cheltenham a stolen sister
2 €
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Oxfam shop dumfries what is it that makes some men and women take difficult decisions and do the right thing against the odds when easier and far less dangerous alternatives are open to them? why is it that some people - like the undercover heroes working for soe in occupied france or the passengers of the united 93 flight on 9/11 - have the courage to dare? to answer these questions, gordon brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figuresall three paid the ultimate pricethese eight heroes are very different people, with very different strengths and frailties, but all share an inspirational courage that gordon brown celebrates in these fascinating and moving portraitsstarting with edith cavell, who nursed the wounded of world war i in belgium and helped allied soldiers escape back to england, he goes on to consider the protestant pastor dietrich bonhoeffer, who in returned to nazi germany from new york to lead the christian opposition against the nazi regime, and the wealthy businessman raoul wallenberg, who left neutral sweden in to go to budapest to try save the lives of hungarian jews finally, he explores the life of aung san suu kyi, who for twenty years, much of that time under house arrest in rangoon, has led her country's democratic opposition to military dictatorship, and continues to do so todayand then there is the legacy of dame cicely saunders, who changed the way we care for the dying by founding and leading the hospice movement telling the stories of america's civil rights leader martin luther king, robert kennedy - who, after his brother's assassination, remade himself as a politician of compassion - and nelson mandela, he considers great courage over a long period against daunting oddssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
3 €
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But while zafars mughal ancestors had controlled most of india, the aged zafar was king in name onlythe siege of delhi was the rajs stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreatit is the first account to present the indian perspective on the siege, and has at its heart the stories of the forgotten individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in historyoxfam shop colne road at 4 pdeprived of real political power by the east india company, zafar nevertheless succeeded in creating a court of great brilliance, and presided over one of the great cultural renaissances of indian historywhen zafar gave his blessing to a rebellion among the companys own indian troops, it transformed an army mutiny into the largest uprising the british empire ever had to facethe last mughalis an extraordinary revisionist work with clear contemporary echoesthe last mughalis a portrait of the dazzling delhi zafar personified, the story of the last days of the great mughal capital and its final destruction in the catastrophe ofbahadur shah zafar ii, the last mughal emperor, was a mystic, a talented poet, and a skilled calligrapheras the british commissioner in charge insisted, no vestige should remain to distinguish where the last of the great moghuls restson a hazy november afternoon in rangoon, , a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of british soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosurethen in zafars flourishing capital became the centre of an uprising that reduced his beloved delhi to a battered, empty ruinwilliam dalrymples powerful retelling of this fateful course of events is shaped from groundbreaking material: previously untranslated urdu and persian manuscripts that include indian eyewitness accounts, and the records of the delhi courts, police, and administration during the siegesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
14 €
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Oxfam shop hexham a lovely shaped interesting tankard engraved silver grill club, possibly from the silver grill jazz club rangoonthis tankard may hold many storiesits difficult to make out the makers mark but the tankard is in good overall condition5cms see oxfam website for delivery information read more
47 €