The Gold and Silver Road of Trade and Friendship: The McLeod and Richardson Diplomatic Missions to Tai States in 1837

The nineteenth-century travelogue of two men of the East India Company Madras Army to the present-day regions of the Shan States in Burma, northern Thailand, and Sipsong Panna in China McLeod and Richardson, both of the East India Company Madras Army, traveled to the present-day regions of the Shan States in Burma, northern Thailand, and Sipsong Panna in China. They wrote superbly of their journeys and diplomatic exchanges. Their journals are published here in full, with detailed notes, for the first time.