“In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair. The piano belongs to an army surgeon-major whose unorthodox peacemaking methods – poetry, medicine, and now music – have brought a tentative quiet to the southern Shan States but have elicited questions from his superiors.”.
“On his journey through Europe, the Red Sea, India, and into B…
