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The Great Hill Stations of Asia

The Great Hill Stations of Asia( )
Author: Crossette, Barbara
ISBN:978-0-8133-3326-7
Publication Date:Mar 1998
Publisher:Avalon Publishing
Imprint:Westview Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $42.00
Book Description:

For Europeans and later Americans, the civil administrator and his clerk, the merchant and the missionary, daily life was less a matter of advancing the glory of God or empire than a daily battle for physical survival. Throughout Asia, colonialists established "hill stations” as cool retreats from unfamiliar and often unhealthy climes in which they were attempting to govern. Constructed to look like "home,” these hill stations became targets for nationalistic...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Travel / Asia / General
Travel / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Resorts & Spas
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 cm
Book Weight:0.537 Kilograms



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