Author: LINDEN, Annie.
Title: Gold. A Dutch-Indian Story for English People.
Description: London, John Lane 1896. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth blocked in blind; 285pp and 1896 publisher's list. A little browning; a rather good bright copy. ¶ First edition of this rare Indonesian lost race fantasy; there was also a New York edition which looks not much easier to find. I'm not sure exactly where the dread lost land of Moa and its mountain of gold is but our explorers sail through the Moluccas on their way from Java; once we leave the Banda Islands the geography turns imaginary. Ms Linden starts slow but ends pretty ruthless; most of her worthy characters die miserably while our hero is pretty much a faithless greedy madman well before book's end. There is enough, more than enough, local colour to convince me that first hand experience is at work here. I found mention of a couple of short stories - one about untameable half-caste women (who populate these pages too) - by Linden and one other novel, in English: a domestic drama dismissed as "Dutch fiction" in the one notice I saw; nothing else in English or Dutch.
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers lost race fantasy Indonesia south east asia c19th
Title: Gold. A Dutch-Indian Story for English People.
Description: London, John Lane 1896. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth blocked in blind; 285pp and 1896 publisher's list. A little browning; a rather good bright copy. ¶ First edition of this rare Indonesian lost race fantasy; there was also a New York edition which looks not much easier to find. I'm not sure exactly where the dread lost land of Moa and its mountain of gold is but our explorers sail through the Moluccas on their way from Java; once we leave the Banda Islands the geography turns imaginary. Ms Linden starts slow but ends pretty ruthless; most of her worthy characters die miserably while our hero is pretty much a faithless greedy madman well before book's end. There is enough, more than enough, local colour to convince me that first hand experience is at work here. I found mention of a couple of short stories - one about untameable half-caste women (who populate these pages too) - by Linden and one other novel, in English: a domestic drama dismissed as "Dutch fiction" in the one notice I saw; nothing else in English or Dutch.
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers lost race fantasy Indonesia south east asia c19th
Price: AUD 475.00 = appr. US$ 328.64 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 9183
- Book number: 9183