Author: RAWLINSON, PROF.H.G. (EDITOR).
Title: Captain Basil Hall. R.N. F.R.S. Travels in India Ceylon and Borneo.
Description: London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1931. The Broadway Travellers series (edited by Sir E.Denison Ross and Eileen Power. This book has been selected and edited with a biographical introduction by Professor H.G.Rawlinson of the Indian Educational Service. Contents include. Chapter I. Bombay; II.Sir Samuel Hood and the Alligator Hunt; III. Picnic Party in the Cave of Elephanta; IV.Excursion to Candelay Lake in Ceylon; V. Griffins in India - Sinbad's Valley of Diamonds - A Mosquito Hunt; VI. Ceylonese Canoes - Peruvian Balsa - The Floating Windlass of the Coromandel Fishermen; VII. The Surf at Madras; VIII. The Sunnyasses; IX. Palankeen Travelling - Irrigating Tanks in the Mysore Country; X. The Dessera Festival at Mysore; XI. Granite mountain cut into a statue - Bamboo Forest - Rajah of Coorg; XII. Visit to the Sultan of Pontiana, in Borneo - Sir Samuel Hood. Pp.272/8 publisher's catalogue, black & white portrait frontispiece, minor pink stains to top of rear endpapers. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, boards rubbed with bumps to corners. Good.

Keywords: Rawlinson Captain Basil Hall Travels India Ceylon Borneo Bombay Samuel Hood Alligator Hunt Candelay Lake Griffins Coromandel Fishermen Madras Sunnyasses Palankeen Mysore Coorg Pontiana 46596 Travel


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