Author: Civilian, Bengal; Kinloch, Charles Walter (real name).
Title: Rambles in Java and the Straits in 1852.
Description: Singapore Oxford University Press (OUP), 1989. Reprint ed. Paperback trade, very good condition, colour photos of drawings centre spread, frontispiece map, minor edgewear. 139 pp. Historical travel tales by Bengal Civilian (pseudonym of Charles Walter Kinloch), who was one of the first tourists (apart from explorers, etc.) to visit Penang, Singapore and Java, for the purpose of recuperating from illness. A graphic and amusing account of the numerous privations and occasional enjoyments of travelling in southeast Asia 135 years ago during the time of British and Dutch colonialism. ISBN: 0195888588

Keywords: travel, history, asia, malaya, singapore, indonesia, java 0195888588


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