The Land of the Great Image
by Maurice Collis
Apart from being terrific entertainment, and wonderfully droll in places, Land of the Great Image makes an important contribution to the literature of dynastic lunacy. The same blend of megalomania and mysticism witnessed by Manrique in the 17th century – the same delusions of divinity inherent in Burmese despots – are in florid evidence to this very day.
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