Author: SYDNEY GREENBIE
Title: The Romantic East
Description: NY, National Travel Club. 1930, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: illustrated. Book, First edition, 298p. frontispiece, 33 b/w photos. Greenbie offers intelligent, learned discussion about India, Bombay, Delhi, Agra, Benares, Calcutta, Madras, Calico, and Sari. In Indo-China, discussion is of Burma and Malay, Siam, & Angkor. Also China, Canton, Nanking, & Peking, and in Japan, the author discusses the tragic gifts of the Gods, Japan in stone, steel, wood, and silk. The photography in this book is an excellent contribution to an overall highly informative work. Very Good/Good.

Keywords: illustrated