Author: BROHIER, L.,
Title: Seeing Ceylon. In vistas of Scenery, History, Legend and Folklore. Second edition.
Description: Colombo, Lake House Investments, 1971. Original coloured and partly illustrated stiff wrappers. [6], 262pp. 24 black/white ills. with captions on 12 plates after phtographs, double-page coloured maps of Ceylon on front- and back endpapers, 3 regional sketch-maps in text, occasional bibliographies at end of some chapters, general bibliography, glossary of local terms, index, footnotes, list of illustrations and maps, table of contents. A good general informative description of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) on behalf of travellers and tourists. Very good copy. (neat name in ink of previous owner at upper right corner of french title).

Keywords: ceylon sri lanka information travel tourism journey culture heritage history folklore legends southeast asia