The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U, Faber and Faber: 2007, P361... Burma?s Famous Waterway Gives a New Biographical-History Book Its Title... "In his latest book, targeting a general readership, Thant Myint-U collages his memoirs, travelogue and genealogy against Burma?s historical background. In the late 1820s, the first Anglo-Burmese war dealt an initial major blow to the Konbaung dynasty. It was then that scholars and Buddhist monks at the court of Ava began to revise and update U Kala?s Chronicle of Burmese Kings. The result was The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma, an endeavor Thant Myint-U finds ?a fitting thing to do, when the future seemed unclear, the present had become so painful, and the lessons of the past needed a more proper accounting.? This could well have been Thant Myint-U?s own intention..."