Author: BORRMANN, M.,
Title: Soenda. Een Reis door Sumatra. [First dutch edition, freely translated after the orig. german edn. 1925 by J.G. Sinia].
Description: Utrecht, de Haan, [], 1926. Large stout 8°., original cloth, bold type cover title, gilded titlelable on spine. 202pp. frontispiece, 18 very nice tipped-in plates after original water-colours and pencil-drawings by S(iegfried) Sebba. Dutch language experiences and observations gathered by author, a german national, travelling through North Sumatra: arrival at Belawan harbour, Medan City, Estates, planters, tobacco growing, The Karo- and Toba-Batak population, customs, paganism and christianization, topography of the landscape Silindoeng, Tapanuli the Pearl of West Coast Sumatra, Nias Island. Good copy.

Keywords: travel journey sumatra aceh atje tobabatak karobatak observation report customs life topography tapanuli medan nias history colonialism indonesia southeastasia narrative