Goa and the Blue Mountains or Six Months of Sick Leave - Hardcover
(Reprint 1851 edn.) Chapters: The Voyage; New Goa; Old Goa as it was; Old Goa as it is; Return to Panjim; The population of Panjim; seroda; Education, Professions, and Oriental Studies; Calicut; Malabar; The Hindus of Malabar; The Muslim and other Natives of Malabar; The Land Journey; First Glimpse of "Oaty"; Life at Oaty; Life outside Oaty; Inhabitants of the Neilgherries; Kotagherry
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Published in 1851, this book was the first written by the famed Victorian explorer Richard Burton. It is an account of his journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian Army.
About the Author:
Richard F. Burton was a noted nineteenth-century British explorer, best known for discovering the source of the Nile. Dane Kennedy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska and the author of Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Rhodesia, 1890-1939 (Duke 1987).
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- PublisherJetley for Asian Educational Services
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 8120606795
- ISBN 13 9788120606791
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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