Java Pageant
OUP South East Asia (Verlag)
978-0-19-588909-3 (ISBN)
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This is an account of life in Java in the 1920s and 1930s. The author, disillusioned by the guide books of her age, set out to capture the spirit of the island with which she had fallen in love. The result is a medley of impressions about life in Java 60 years ago, written in the tradition of the traveller with the enquiring mind.
Java - land of Wayang, Batik, and the sarong; some town and country scenes; kampong dwellers and the peddlars; Javanese mythology and the Wayang; a motorist's paradise; ruritanian royalty, pawnshops, and prisons; a few native foibles; Javanese seamen and sportsmen; a chapter of Javanese history; Java's "Conversions"; the Chinese in Java; the land and its tenure; the story of irrigation; canals and their queer uses; 12000 square miles of rice; "King Sugar"; the ubiquitous bamboo and mountain gardens; model dairies and highland settlements; the romance of Cinchona; November afternoon...teak...and tea; on a rubber estate; a diversity of crops; of "domestic" and other animals; about volcanoes; Dutch life in Java to-day; some matters of no importance; disturbing elements and defensive measures; modern Java...roads, railways, and electric power; a cameo-and cavalcade.
| Zusatzinfo | 16 b&w plates |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Kuala Lumpur |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 195 mm |
| Gewicht | 355 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-588909-6 / 0195889096 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-588909-3 / 9780195889093 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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