A Visit to Manila and Its Environs by J.A.B. Wiselius 25 on 25

A Visit to Manila and Its Environs by J.A.B. Wiselius 25 on 25"In 1875 Jacob Adolf Bruno Wiselius, Controller with the Dutch Colonial Administration on Java, visited Manila and the neighboring Laguna province. Shortly after, he published a book in Holland on his travel experience. This travel account is now being translated from the Dutch for the first time, 140 years after its original publication. This translation is also accompanied by an essay that not only provides biographical information on the author but

Pages: 384 pages

Publisher: Stanford University Press

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