WIT, Augusta de. - Facts and fancies about Java. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged.

The Hague, W.P. van Stockum & Son, 1900. Original green pictorial cloth. With photographic plates. 266 pp. First edition published in Singapore in 1898. - Augusta de Wit (1864 - 1939), born in the Dutch East Indies, was a female tourist who traveled in Java in the nineties. In her vision east and west should remain completely separate. She published a collection of her articles, first published in The Singapore Straits Times, as an illustrated book, Facts and Fancies about Java noting that 'Hollanders do not understand the Javanese, nor do the Javanese understand the Hollanders, in any true sense of the word'.

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