Author: JOUSTRA, M.,
Title: Van Medan naar Padang en terug. (Reisindrukken en -ervaringen.). Orig.edn.
Description: Leiden, 1915. Small 4°, 162pp., frontisp., text-ills. & plates, 1 large folded coloured track-map. [Het Bataksch Instituut No. 11]. BUUR, PD, 800. Right across Sumatra, author's report of a journey from Medan to Padang and back, with observations and impressions of the Batak-population: villages, architecture, physical appearances, traditions and ceremonies, religion, means of subsistence. Done by command of the Batak-Institute. Rare.

Keywords: batak/sumatra/travelogue/colonialism/indonesia/southeast asia