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A Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar ...

Buchanan, Francis · 1807 · 9 pictures

A Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar is a 1807 travelogue by Francis Buchanan, a surveyor who recorded South Indian regions for a British audience. Its plates pair engraved portraits of local men in turbans with precise drawings of hand tools, agricultural implements and sloping terrain shown in hatched shading, offering a designer clear examples of fine line engraving and tidy technical diagrams.

Literatur zu Südasien · Reiseberichte · Literature on South Asia · Travelogues

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