Java : the garden of the East / by E.R. Scidmore
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
1986
Information About
This late-nineteenth century travel book, written by an American visitor, has been described as a 'seminal work', opening as it did to Western eyes the glories, curiosities and mysteries of Java, an island little known in the Western world at that period. With feminine intrepidity, the author provides for us unique vignettes of various aspects of Javanese and Dutch- Javanese life in the heyday of colonial rule.
Additional Details
- Title
- Java : the garden of the East / by E.R. Scidmore
- Creators
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- Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah, 1856-1928
- Subject
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- Java (Indonesia)--Description and travel--19th century
- Publisher
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- Oxford University Press, 1986
- National Library Board Singapore, 1986
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, xiv, 339 p. ill., map
- Table of Contents
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- I. Singapore and the equator -- II. In "Java major" -- III. Batavia, queen of the East -- IV. The kampongs -- V. To the hills -- VI. A Dutch sans souci -- VII. In a tropical garden -- VIII. The "culture system" -- IX. The "culture system" (Continued) -- X. Sinagar -- XI. Plantation life -- XII. Across the Preanger regencies -- XIII. "To TIssak Malaya!" -- XIV. Prisoners of state at Boro Boedor -- XV. Boro Boedor -- XVI. Boro Boedor and Mendoet -- XVII. Brambanam -- XVIII. Solo: the city of the Susunhan -- XIV. The land of kris and sarong...
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.