Myanmar (Burma) Handbook

Footprint Handbooks’ rapid expansion over the past year is well chronicled in these columns. There are more than 25 titles in print, two to come later this year, and another six in the pipeline. They have quickly earned an enviable reputation, not only as travellers’ handbooks, but also as reference manuals of undeniable quality. Originally published as part of Thailand, Indonesia and Burma Handbook (1992), and later Thailand and Burma Handbook (1996), this latest version can obviously devote more detailed attention to a single country, felicitously known as Shwe Pyidaw, “The Golden Land”. In familiar fashion we are swiftly...