Java, the Garden of the East: Travel and Adventures of an American Woman in Java in 1897 - Softcover

Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906393028 ISBN 13: 9781906393021

Publisher: 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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Product Description

Java, the Garden of the East 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, ...

From the Publisher

Trotamundas Press is an international publisher specializing in travel literature written by women travellers from different countries and cultures. Our mission is to bring back into print great travel books written by women around the world which have been forgotten. It is our privilege to rescue those travel stories which were widely acclaimed in the past and that are still relevant nowadays to help us understand better the diversity of the countries and the world. The travel stories also make an enjoyable reading, full of adventure and the excitement of discovery. We are proud to help preserving the memory of all those amazing women travellers which were unjustly forgotten and hope that you will enjoy reading about their interesting experiences as much as we have enjoyed researching them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trotamundas Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906393028
• ISBN 13: 9781906393021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352