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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Mandalay
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One of *Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), encapsulating much of the popular romance of empire. An ex-soldier, working now in the City of London, dreams of the road to Mandalay, 'where the flying fishes play' and where he imagines his Burmese girl still sitting 'by the old Moulmein Pagoda'. Sick of the English drizzle, all he wants is to be shipped somewhere 'east of Suez'.
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