author
C. T. (Charles Thomas) Paske
A retired army surgeon who turned long years in British Burma into vivid travel writing, offering readers a firsthand look at everyday life, landscape, and colonial society in the nineteenth century. His best-known book blends memoir, observation, and the perspective of someone who knew the region through work as well as travel.
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Life and Travel in Lower Burmah: A Retrospect
by C. T. (Charles Thomas) Paske
About the author
Born in India in 1830, Charles Thomas Paske served in the Bengal Medical Service and rose to the rank of Deputy Surgeon-General. Records found during this search describe him as the son of Colonel Thomas Theophilus Paske and note that he trained in medicine before beginning his service in 1852.
Paske is best known as the author of Life and Travel in Lower Burmah: A Retrospect, a memoir-like work published in 1892 and later made widely available through Project Gutenberg. The book looks back on his years in Burma and stands out for its mix of personal experience, travel narrative, and observations of local life during the mid-nineteenth century.
He also wrote Sunny Dover, Then and Now, showing that his interests ranged beyond Burma to place-based historical and descriptive writing. Although detailed literary biographies of Paske are scarce, the surviving record presents him as a medical officer whose writing grew directly out of a life spent moving between military service, travel, and close observation.