![]() ![]() Thus begins his great journey of exploration and discovery bound to challenge and preconceptions he had about the world and the doings of the British Empire. After a bit of consideration, Drake decides to leave the safety of his life and comfort of his wife to sail towards an unknown destiny. One day a strange request comes through to him from the War Office: they want him to travel to Burma and service the piano of an army surgeon for three months in exchange for a full year’s worth of pay. The story opens in 1886 as we are presented with Edgar Drake, the titular tuner living a life as normal as can be. For his first published novel, titled The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason decided to take us on something of a guided tour into one of those colonies: British Burma. Life in those colonies was certainly different from anything they had known either before or after, making them a curious microcosm to explore in our history. The British used to hold countless colonies over multiple continents, and as you might imagine, this led to a considerable amount of strife and opposition over the decades. Great Britain might be relegated to a relatively small piece of land these days, making it easy to forget it wasn’t so long ago they essentially had control over half the world through their empire. ![]() ![]() Daniel Mason’s Guided Tour of British Burma ![]()
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