Through Luzon on Highways and Byways (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Willis Bliss Wilcox

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332204708 ISBN 13 : 9781332204700

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Step into a travelogue of Luzon’s interior, where a travel party encounters hospitality, wealth, and hard truths about colonial life.

This edition follows a journey to Ilagan, the capital of Isabela, where grand dances, elegant dress, and local pride sit beside the stark realities of power, race, and shifting rule. Read about lavish dinners, performances, and social ceremonies that reveal a culture both refined and distant from metropolitan expectations. The narrative also explores the economic heartbeat of the town—tobacco wealth, Chinese merchants, and the rise of new communities in a changing political landscape. Through vivid scenes and firsthand impressions, you’ll sense a landscape on the cusp of modernization, with roads, railways, and enterprise shaping a country in transition.

• Vibrant scenes of ballrooms, costumes, and music that illuminate everyday life in a provincial capital.


• Observations on wealth, commerce, and the roles of different communities in a tobacco-centered town.


• Portraits of officials, hosts, and prisoners that reveal the tensions of power and change in Luzon.


• Reflections on travel, hospitality, and the evolving infrastructure that could transform a region.

Ideal for readers of historical travelogues and first‑hand accounts of life in the Philippine provinces, especially those curious about cultural encounters and the early 20th‑century transition.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332204708
• ISBN 13: 9781332204700
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 239
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