Dimensions
143 x 222 x 32mm
A Quest For The Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play The Empire's Game.
A two-fold journey as Andrew Marshall travels through modern Burma on the trail of the eccentric Victorian adventurer, Sir George Scott.
Born in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, Scott was an imperialist with a fondness for football - he introduced the sport to Burma and widened the goalposts of the British Empire in his own unique way. The Burmese loved the game, Scott noted, because it was just like fighting.
But 'The Trouser People' is much more than a biography of Lord Scott: it is also a revealing portrait of a country that remains an enigma to the modern Western world as a result of its brutal regimes and self-imposed isolation.
