Scheltema wrote this 1912 book from happy memories of years spent among the ancient monuments of Java. After an introduction to the island and its people, he tours the temple sites region by region, from West Java and the Dieng Plateau to Prambanan and East Java, and gives three closing chapters to the approach, the carved stones and the meaning of the great Buddhist monument of Borobudur.
A cultivated traveller’s guide to some of the great religious architecture of Asia, with the author’s own drawings of temple ornament. Download the free EPUB.