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From Jungle to Java

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Mr. X., whose impressions and mild adventures in the 19th century I have undertaken the task of editing was an officer employed in one of the small States of the Malay Peninsula, which were under the protection of the Colonial Government of the Straits Settlements. These are the tales of his adventures in the jungles of Java.
Paperback, 92 pages
Published February 13th 2009 by Dodo Press (first published February 1st 2009)
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Ryan
Jun 09, 2013 Ryan rated it did not like it
Shelves: colonial
Boring account of some British colonial's holiday in Java, written strangely from a third person perspective by his supposed 'chronicler'. Descriptions of terraced padi cultivation and rustic villages aside, this is quite a forgettable piece of travel narrative.
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Arthur Louis Keyser (1856-1924) was the author of: Our Cruise in New Guinea (1884), An Exile's Romance; or, Realities of Australian Life (1887), Cut by the Mess (1889), From Jungle to Java (1897) and People and Places: A Life in Five Continents (1922). "Mr. X., whose impressions and mild adventures I have undertaken the task of editing, has asked me to narrow his personal introduction to such limi ...more
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