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Java: The Garden of the East
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Sist them to avoid certain things and to take advantage of others that will add to their enjoy ment of the island where nature has been so prodigal with beauties and wonders.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Sist them to avoid certain things and to take advantage of others that will add to their enjoy ment of the island where nature has been so prodigal with beauties and wonders.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
355 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1899
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August 17, 2016
Reading Scidmore's account of her travel to Java, I cannot help but compare her work with that of Augusta de Wit's (Java: Facts and Fancies). Both were published around the same time and both illuminated the ins and outs of traveling (and to a certain extent, living) in 1890s Java in what was then the Netherlands East Indies.
Yet, whereas de Wit's--perhaps due to her Dutch Indies background, she was after all born in Sumatra--empathetically captured and described the everyday life of "orang blanda" adopting custom and practices more suited to the tropics than to Europe, Scidmore was unambiguously harsher in tone toward the attitudes of whitemen (and women) in the Netherlands East Indies. An exact sentiment she also directed toward other ethnic groups that lived side by side with the Javanese.
Despite the shortcomings on what I feel is the author's thinly-veiled racial prejudice--this seminal work, after all, is a product of the 19th century--Scidmore's exquisite writing provides a vignette of a time (and life) long gone and mostly forgotten.
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