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 a book about the Buddhist temples of ancient Pagan and lived and travelled in Burma through the 1980s and '90s.

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 a book about the Buddhist temples of ancient Pagan and lived and travelled in Burma through the 1980s and '90s. See less