The Round The World Traveller – D. E. Lorenz (1927)

S$82.00

The Round The World Traveller – D. E. Lorenz (1927)

S$82.00

Title: The Round the World Traveller

Author: D. E. Lorenz

Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1927.

Condition: Hardcover, cloth. Very good. Slight tearing to cloth on cover, very slight cracking to hinge. Inscription to half title page. With numerous photographic plates and a few maps, some of which are in colour. Red edges. 464pp., app 7″ by 4″.

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A lovely travel guide dedicated largely to Asia, with a few chapters on South America/Hawaii/the Middle East. With multiple foldout maps and numerous black-and-white photographs.  The author includes a brief overview of each country, along with important places of interest and a useful bibliographies for those who want to find out more. Pictures include a bullock cart in Singapore, old Nagasaki. Javanese women doing laundry, and snake charmers at Benares.

Contents:

  1. Cuba
  2. Panama
  3. Hawaii
  4. Japan
  5. Korea
  6. China
  7. Philippine Islands
  8. Java
  9. Singapore
  10. Burma
  11. India
  12. Ceylon
  13. The Suez Canal
  14. Egypt