LEADER 03302oam 2200649I 450 001 9910784099203321 005 20230617000945.0 010 $a1-134-28479-9 010 $a1-134-28480-2 010 $a1-280-24369-4 010 $a9786610243693 010 $a0-203-34047-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203340479 035 $a(CKB)1000000000255745 035 $a(EBL)199500 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000261921 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12042057 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261921 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10269397 035 $a(PQKB)11698356 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC199500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL199500 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10857984 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL24369 035 $a(OCoLC)876507409 035 $a(OCoLC)252740764 035 $a(OCoLC)880684030 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB143142 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000255745 100 $a20180706e20051931 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTravels in India, Ceylon and Borneo /$fBasil Hall ; [selected and edited with a biographical introduction by H. G. Rawlinson] 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledgeCurzon,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 225 1 $aThe broadway travellers 300 $aFirst published in 1931. 311 $a1-138-86773-X 311 $a0-415-34485-9 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter I Bombay; Chapter II Sir Samuel Hood and the Alligator Hunt; Chapter III Picnic Party in the Cave of Elephanta; Chapter IV Excursion to Candelay Lake in Ceylon; Chapter V Griffins in India-Sinbad's Valley of Diamonds-A Mosquito Hunt; Chapter VI Ceylonese Canoes-Peruvian Balsas-The Floating Windlass of the Coromandel Fishermen; Chapter VII The Surf at Madras; Chapter VIII The Sunnyasses 327 $aChapter IX Palankeen Travelling-Irrigating Tanks in the Mysore CountryChapter X The Dessera Festival at Mysore; Chapter XI Granite Mountain Cut Into a Statue-Bamboo Forest-Rajah of Coorg; Chapter XII Visit to the Sultan of Pontiana, in Borneo-Sir Samuel Hood; Index 330 $aFirst published in 1931.'Hall is the ideal travel-writer. He never wearies his readers, but makes them love him.' Times Literary SupplementBasil Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels originally appeared in nine volumes. Miscellaneous in their topics, and arranged without any order the volumes re-issued here have been selected for their clarity and interest, both geographical and historical.Few books give a more graphic picture of the Royal Navy a century ago and Hall's volumes are full of nautical information. Hall was also an indefatigable traveller and a keen observer 410 0$aBroadway travellers. 607 $aIndia$xDescription and travel 607 $aSri Lanka$xDescription and travel 676 $a915.4 700 $aHall$b Basil$f1788-1844.,$0293072 701 $aRawlinson$b H. G$g(Hugh George),$f1880-$0134717 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784099203321 996 $aTravels in India, Ceylon and Borneo$93775886 997 $aUNINA