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VBI-0238
ROUGHING IT IN SOUTHERN INDIA
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Details
- Author
- Mrs. M. A. Handley
- Year
- 1911
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold, London
- Location
- Southern India; Nilgiri Hills; Ootacamund; Malabar; Wynaad; Hyderabad
- Subjects
- Travel and reminiscences · Forest service in Southern India · Colonial domestic life · Hunting and wildlife · Toda communities · Indian customs
- Edition
- Not specified
- Pages
- xi, 300 pp., 12 leaves of plates
- Size
- 9.1 x 6 in
Description
Mrs. M. A. Handley's Roughing It in Southern India, published by Edward Arnold, London, in 1911, bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to the upper board and spine and blind-ruled panels to the upper board. The photographed preliminaries include the title page, contents and a list of twelve illustrations, with the index listed as beginning on page 297. Illustrations shown include “Our Camp,” “Toda Mund—Woman's Salutation,” “Road to the Nilgiri Hills,” and a panoramic view of Ootacamund with its lake, racecourse and native town. The Nilgiri road illustration bears the credit “A. T. W. Penn, Photo.”
Condition
Good