Maurice Collis: 3 books
by Maurice Collis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
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. The book superbly embodies that old...
by Maurice Collis
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
"This is an unpretentious book, but it brings out with unusual clearness the dilemma that faces every official in an empire like our own." George Orwell
Trials in Burma recounts Maurice Collis' experiences as a district magistrate in Rangoon in the late 1920s. The book recounts his...
by Maurice Collis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
The convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."
Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt himself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the first advanced civilization...