An American diplomat and traveller sets out through the world’s turnstile at Suez to Ceylon, India, China and Japan. He describes cosmopolitan Colombo, the pearl fisheries, the shrine of Buddha’s tooth at Kandy, the hill country, the Parsees of Bombay, a maharajah at Jeypore and the marble dome of the Taj Mahal.
An Edwardian traveller’s view of Asia, with the assumptions of its day. Download the free EPUB.