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*[https://archive.org/details/TheLandOfTheGreatImage ''The Land Of The Great Image; Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan''] by Maurice Collis 1946 Archive.org. (A History). Sebastien Manrique was a Portuguese Augustinian missionary who spent much of the period 1629-37 in Arakan, and also visited the Philippines, China and India. His account of his travels was originally written in Spanish and published in 1649 and 1653.
*[https://archive.org/details/SheWasAQueen ''She Was A Queen''] by Maurice Collis 1937 Archive.org. (Fiction) Biography of a Burmese Queen
*The following books by Maurice Collis. may be read online are available on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, as may pdf downloads, as are the two books above. There are also mirror editions available on Archive.org.
**Autobiographies
***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528179524247 ''Trials in Burma''] by Maurice Collis 1938. Pdf download, DLI. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524247 Archive.org version]. Probably the author’s most famous book on Burma, one of several volumes of autobiography, it covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930. Pdf download
**Histories
***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209009 ''Foreign Mud - Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followed''] 1946. Pdf download, DLI. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209009 Archive.org version].***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284308 ''The Great Within''] 1941. The interactions of China and Europe from the seventeenth century. Pdf download, DLI. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284308 Archive.org version].
**Other
***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/127532 ''British Merchant Adventurers''] 1942. Pdf download, DLI. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127532 Archive.org version].***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/207858 ''The Burmese Scene''] 1943. Full title: ''The Burmese Scene : Political, Historical, Pictorial''. A review of the history, government and economic life of Burma. Pdf download, DLI. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207858 Archive.org version].***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/241770 ''Marco Polo''] 1950. Pdf download, DLI. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241770 Archive.org version].
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