The gentleman in the parlour/w somerset maugham

This book includes an introduction by Paul Theroux.

Somerset Maughams success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own.

The Gentleman in the Parlour is an account of the authors trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam.

Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maughams vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life.