Elena Jotow and Nicholas Ganz’s candid guide to troubled but beautiful Burma offers a refreshing, often trenchant insight into its turbulent history and presents struggles as well as its most impressive sights and the remarkable warmth of the Burmese people.

For travellers, would-be travellers, and anyone curious to know more about this wonderful country and the vitality of the people’s resistance to the current regime, this book is required reading.