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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. viii + 180 pp. Bound in original cream cloth with red titles, in pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. Signed by author on half title. Loosely inset: Publisher's advance notice of the title. Illustrated by map and by 8 pages of photographic plates. The autobiography of the daughter of an Irish colonial administrator and his beautiful Burmese wife. Her time was divided between an Italian convent boarding school in the country and holidays with her mother and grandparents in a Burmese village; she later endured the loss of her parents and the Japanese occupation. Maureen Baird-Murray was Executive Director of Prospect Burma, an educational charity founded in 1989 to support higher education in Burma.