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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Wanderings Of A Pilgrim, In Search Of The Picturesque, During Four-And-Twenty Years In The East; With Revelations Of Life In The Zenana (Volume I)

Wanderings Of A Pilgrim, In Search Of The Picturesque, During Four-And-Twenty Years In The East; With Revelations Of Life In The Zenana (Volume I)

Parlby, Fanny

Paperback

Travel GeneralGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 9354488595
ISBN13: 9789354488597
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 572
Weight: 2.88
Height: 1.16 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Twenty-four years on the road across the East, seen not through an officer's dispatches but from a private carriage, a drawing room, and the threshold of the zenana. A woman's eye changes everything. In Wanderings Of A Pilgrim, In Search Of The Picturesque, Fanny Parlby records a long, observant journey through British Raj era India and beyond, blending scene-setting with daily particulars: routes and residences, ceremonies and households, encounters shaped by gender, class, and empire. This women's travel memoir stands out for its attention to domestic worlds usually kept off the page, offering rare glimpses of life in zenana and the lived textures of colonial India daily life. Read as an unabridged Victorian travelogue and complete public domain text, Volume I rewards the casual armchair traveller with vivid atmosphere, while giving south Asian history readers a grounded sense of nineteenth century North India as it was experienced, not merely administered. For collectors and students of the period, Parlby belongs among the most revealing Victorian women travel writers, writing from within the social machinery of the East India Company history yet attentive to the people and places that complicated imperial certainty. It is an invaluable women's history reference: a record of British women in India negotiating movement, curiosity, and constraint in public and private spaces. 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.

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