Autor/-in: Paul Strachan

Paul Strachan comes from a long line of Glasgow shipbuilders and first visited Burma in 1981 to work for a Scottish company building power stations there. In 1995 he revived the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and restored an original Clyde-built steamer, a story he tells in The Pandaw Story. He has written books about the Buddhist temples of ancient Pagan and living and travelling in Burma in the 1980s. Author hometown: Perth.