Author: PONDER, H.W.,
Title: Java Pageant. A description of one of the world's richest, most beautiful, yet little known Islands and the strange Customs & beliefs, the industries, religion & wars of its fascinating People. First edition.
Description: London, Seely Service, [circa], 1934. Stout 8°, original publ. cloth. Hftitle (verso with publ. list). 304pp., frontispiece,, ills. on 14 plates after photographs, with captions, 2 sketch-maps of Java on a double-page plate, list of illustrations, index, table of contents, partly illustrated publ. advert. on final 3 unnumbered lvs. This edition NOT called-for in holdings of Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, KITLV. (listing paperback reprint 1988 only). English language narrative of a tour through Java in the early 1930s., by which a vivid picture is painted of its religion, local customs and tradition, the javanese population and other foreign ethnic groups as the Chinese, Arabs and Japanese,, economy and industry, uprisings against the dutch in the past, local traditional festivals, the dutch colonial administration. Good copy.

Keywords: java narrative history culture heritage population ethnicgroups chinese immigrants journey tour trip sightseeing description colonialism indonesia southeastasia