Author: SCIDMORE, E.R.,
Title: Java, the Garden of the East. Fifth Impression, reprinted after the original of 1899.
Description: Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1993. sm. 8°. Orig. limp pictorial coloured glossy wraps. Many facsim. ills. and plaes, list of illustrations, index. [Oxford in Asia Paperbacks, series]. Excellent observations of this american female author, travelling widely through Java at the end of the 19th centure, when Java little known in the Western World, describing various aspects of Javanese and Dutch-Javanese life in the heyday of [dutch] colonial rule. Paperback edition (as published). Very fine copy.

Keywords: java javanese observations life colonialism colonial rule dutch indonesia southeast asia