Java, the Garden of the East (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781906393021)

Eliza Rumaha Scidmore was born October 14, 1856 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America and died November 3, 1928 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a journalist and a traveller and spent long periods in in Alaska, Japan, China, Java and India. In this book about Java written in 1912, Scidmore, who clearly loved the subject is very enthusiastic about the country and the traditions that have made Java such a unique place. It still remains a little known country nowadays but by reading Eliza Scidmore, we are transported to the beauty of the tropical gardens, the volcanoes, the magnificent buddhist temple of Borobudur, the impact of the conquest by Islam, its unique culture and so many places that I bet you did not even know they existed.

Author: Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
ISBN-10: 1906393028
ISBN-13: 9781906393021
Publisher: Trotamundas Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2007
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.80d