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A.A. Bastian

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Luddington:Before Anna Met the King
Genre: Narrative History
Word Count: 110,000
Completed Sensitivity Reads: Thai/Deaf, Chinese, South Asian, British

SYNOPSIS
Elam Luddington thought his days at sea were over, until they weren’t. Sent on a Mormon mission to Siam in 1852, he’s told to keep record of his travels, but he’s not interested in tracking converts or moralizing. When a disaffected mid-ranking soldier within British ranks apprises Luddington of the unfair treatment of Asians, he inadvertently writes down the very particulars that colonial censors thought they had destroyed, and scholars assumed could not be recovered. Luddington alludes to caste in new ways, hints at blatant misinformation during the Second Anglo-Bur ...more

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