Burma: Painted and Described

About this book

Gold pagodas rise out of tropical greenery. Boats move along rivers beneath a pale sky, while markets and monasteries appear in shifting light. R. Talbot Kelly's Burma is a place first encountered through colour.

Seventy-five painted plates carry the reader from busy streets to quiet religious buildings and distant landscapes, accompanied by the artist's travel observations. The original peacock-decorated binding is another small work of design. The accompanying observations also preserve the perspective and assumptions of a British visitor writing during the colonial period.