A Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey: And Other Burmese Folktales

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Parents' Magazine Press, 1968 - 96 pages
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Fifteen tales from the area of Mandalay in Central Burma.

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HAIR STYLES : Both Burmese men and women used to wear long hair . A few men in the villages still do and they wear it in the old - fashioned waypulled tight into a knot at the top or to the side of the head ( see p . 19 and 30 ) .

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Contents

Foreword
11
Mister Luck and Mister Industry
18
Why the Rabbits Nose Twitches
24
Copyright

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A Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey: And Other Burmese Folktales
Htin Aung (U.),Helen G. Trager
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TitleA Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey: And Other Burmese Folktales
AuthorsHtin Aung (U.), Helen G. Trager
Translated byPaw Oo Thet
Illustrated byPaw Oo Thet
PublisherParents' Magazine Press, 1968
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized14 May 2008
Length96 pages
  
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