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Title: Quaint Corners of Ancient Empires: Southern India, Burma, and Manila ... Illustrated.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Offering some insights into the study and mapping of the natural world, this collection includes texts on Babylon, the geographies of China, and the medieval Islamic world. Also included are regional geographies and volumes on environmental determinism, topographical analyses of England, China, ancient Jerusalem, and significant tracts of North America. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Shoemaker, Michael Myers; 1899. xix. 212 p.; 8 . 010057.h.27.

1912. With 63 illustrations. Mr. Shoemaker is a trained traveler. He has the time and the means to travel in luxury and he has developed his qualities as a keen observer by travels in various parts of the world. He possesses excellent descriptive powers and his pages are sprinkled liberally with humor; giving them a certain personal interest and charm that add to the attractiveness of his travel records. In this volume he describes his year's sojourn in the land of John Company. He has confined the text to those sections of India with which the public, American at least, is but little acquainted. Contents: The Outward Voyage; Oudeypour; Chitor; Jeypur and Gulta; Akbar's Town of Victory; The Seven Cities of Delhi; Benares; Buddha; The Snows; Amritsar and the Sikhs; Lahore; Punjab and Its History; Life in Peshawur; The Khyber Pass; The Journey to Kashmir; Life on a Bed of Roses; The Vale of Kashmir at Last; Srinagar; Merchants of Kashmir; River Life; Temple of Martand; Magnificent Shalimar; Last Days in the Vale; Departure from the Vale; The Hot Land; and Life on the Mooltan.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!