Subject: Missions--Burma

Land of the great image
AuthorCollis, Maurice, 1889-1973
PlaceNew York
PublisherNew Directions
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
SeriesA New Directions paperbook ; NDP612
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS530.8.C64 1985
Description317 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
NoteThe land of the great image / Maurice Collis.
"A New Directions book."
"Originally published ... in 1943; first published as New Directions paperbook 76 in 1959 and reissued with additional illustrations as New Directions paperbook 612 in 1985" --T.p. verso.
Includes index.
ISBN0811209725
Land of the great image : being experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan
AuthorCollis, Maurice, 1889-1973
PlaceNew York
PublisherA.A. Knopf
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS527.C7 1943
Description264 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
NoteThe land of the great image : being experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan / by Maurice Collis.
" ... The authentic story of the seventeenth-century Augustinian friar, Manrique, and of his journey to the independent kingdom of Arakan on the Bay of Bengal ... Manrique's diary tells of his adventures in Arakan, of his wanderings through its mysterious capital, Mrauk-U, and of his association with its Buddhist king, who dreamed of being lord of Asia and savior of the world."--cover leaf.
LCCN43-11284