Author: DYCK, J.Z. VAN,
Title: Garoet en Omstreken. Zwerftochten door de Preanger. [Eerste enige druk/first and only edition].
Description: Batavia, Kolff, [..], 1922. Original limp cloth, small rectangular illustration at top of front boards. 267, Vpp. Coloured frontispiece tipped-in with tissue-guard, another tipped-in coloured plate, many black/white plates and illustrations in text after photographs, some profiles of volcanoes in text, extensive footnotes, two thin paper fold. plans with legenda of Hotel Villa-PaulinaTjisoeroepan and Hotel Sanatorium Garoet, some full-page track-maps illustrating walking-tours, some tables in text, 6 partly coloured maps, of which 5 extending loose in endpocket, featuring walking-tours, 1 fairly large map indicating regional hotels and holiday resorts, 1 map indicating regional volcanoes to visit, plan of lake Telaga Bodas, 10 unnumbered LL. with partly illustrated advertism. at front and end of volume, some full-page advertism. in text, table of previously described tours on Vpp. at very end, ull-size advert. by a Soerabaia-Semarang car dealer, with a coloured illustration of a vintage automobile by the name Pic-Pic on louwer outer boards. Lavishly illustrated dutch language tourist guide to Garut and surroundings, mountain range of Preanger district, Java, featuring a number of tours by foot and automobile, incl. ample information on mountain holiday resorts and hotels. Guide composed and written by command of EITO, (the East Indian Travelling and Tourist Office). Complete copy in very good condition.

Keywords: travel tourism walking automobile car hotel garoet garut preanger mountaineering volcano volcanoes reisgids history java colonialism indonesia southeast asia initeraries initerary telaga bodas