Java, the Garden of the East - Couverture souple

Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906393028 ISBN 13 : 9781906393021

Editeur : Trotamundas Press Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Eliza Rumaha Scidmore was born October 14, 1856 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America and died November 3, 1928 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a journalist and a traveller and spent long periods in in Alaska, Japan, China, Java and India. In this book about Java written in 1912, Scidmore, who clearly loved the subject is very enthusiastic about the country and the traditions that have made Java such a unique place. It still remains a little known country nowadays but by reading Eliza Scidmore, we are transported to the beauty of the tropical gardens, the volcanoes, the magnificent buddhist temple of Borobudur, the impact of the conquest by Islam, its unique culture and so many places that I bet you did not even know they existed.

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After the body of this work had gone to press, the first copies of a small, compact, and most admirable Guide to the Dutch East I ndies, written by Dr. J. F. Van Bemmelen and Colonel J. B. Hoover, by invitation of the Royal Steam Packet Company, A msterdam, and translated into English by the Rev. B. J. Berrington, reached this country, and to this work I hasten to extend my salutations, since my own pages contain so many plaints for some such guide.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Trotamundas Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906393028
• ISBN 13: 9781906393021
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible