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Author Hall, Basil, 1788-1844.

Title Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo selected and edited with a biographical introduction by Professor H.G. Rawlinson ..
Published London, G. Routledge & Sons [1931]

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages) frontispiece (portrait) plates
Series Broadway travellers
Broadway travellers.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter I Bombay; Chapter II Sir Samuel Hood and the Alligator Hunt; Chapter III Picnic Party in the Cave of Elephanta; Chapter IV Excursion to Candelay Lake in Ceylon; Chapter V Griffins in India-Sinbad's Valley of Diamonds-A Mosquito Hunt; Chapter VI Ceylonese Canoes-Peruvian Balsas-The Floating Windlass of the Coromandel Fishermen; Chapter VII The Surf at Madras; Chapter VIII The Sunnyasses
Chapter IX Palankeen Travelling-Irrigating Tanks in the Mysore CountryChapter X The Dessera Festival at Mysore; Chapter XI Granite Mountain Cut Into a Statue-Bamboo Forest-Rajah of Coorg; Chapter XII Visit to the Sultan of Pontiana, in Borneo-Sir Samuel Hood; Index
Summary First published in 1931.'Hall is the ideal travel-writer. He never wearies his readers, but makes them love him.' Times Literary SupplementBasil Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels originally appeared in nine volumes. Miscellaneous in their topics, and arranged without any order the volumes re-issued here have been selected for their clarity and interest, both geographical and historical. Few books give a more graphic picture of the Royal Navy a century ago and Hall's volumes are full of nautical information. Hall was also an indefatigable traveller and a keen observer
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Subject Voyages and travels -- Juvenile
Travel
Voyages and travels
SUBJECT India -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064883
Sri Lanka -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000018
Borneo -- Description and travel
Subject Borneo
India
Sri Lanka
Genre/Form Juvenile works
Form Electronic book
Author Rawlinson, H. G. (Hugh George), 1880-1957, editor.
ISBN 0203340477
9780203340479