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1850 · First edition

Wanderings of a Pilgrim, In Search of the Picturesque. During Four and Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana

Fanny Parks

The first edition of Fanny Parks’s celebrated account of twenty-four years in India.

An influential nineteenth-century travel memoir offering a vivid firsthand account of colonial India, its society and culture, and the lives of Indian women.

Publication
London, 1850
Language
English
Format
Multi-volume set
Completeness
Complete.
Condition
Very fine copy.
Provenance
Acquired from Peter Harrington.
Rarity
Further bibliographical details are in preparation.
Status
On request
Travel & ExplorationLiteratureEmpire & East India Company
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