A Guide For Visitors To Kashmir

A Guide For Visitors To Kashmir

John Collett

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Editorial:
Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2020
Materia
Historia de Asia
ISBN:
9789354212727
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Kashmir through the measured eye of a Victorian traveller: precise observation, practical notes and an appetite for place. Step back into Victorian Kashmir. John Collett’s A Guide For Visitors To Kashmir is a lucid Victorian travel guide that balances hands-on counsel with evocative description. Collett’s pages offer more than directions; they record impressions of landscape, courtly life and local custom in the idiom of late 19th century Kashmir, and they reflect the wider age of Himalayan exploration and colonial era tourism. The prose is steady, often quietly attentive, supplying the kinds of details that interest both the practical traveller and the curious reader. For students of Kashmir travel history and for those who collect vintage travel literature, the book is a direct window onto historical India journeys, revealing how explorers and adventurers, officials and sightseers negotiated distance, terrain and hospitality in a rapidly changing world.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Its historical significance is twofold: as a practical companion for travellers to India in its own day and as a documentary resource for anyone tracing Kashmir travel history and the trajectories of British India travel. The book helps map a chapter of colonial era tourism and serves the interests of armchair travel collection curators as well as academic readers. Casual readers will find a readable, atmospheric account; classic-literature collectors will prize this restored edition as a rare piece of vintage travel literature that complements any shelf of classic travelogue book editions. Among readers of British India travel, it complements other period works and rewards casual browsing as much as serious study.

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