Le Guide Impossibili
5551 Il Reame di Coorg
con l'aggiunta di interessanti escursioni alla diruta Seringapatam, alle rovine di Vijayanagar, nonché alle Nilghiri o Montagne Azzurre
Edited by Gianni Guadalupi, Venusta Pacces. Texts by William Lambton, Edouard de Warren, Jacob Hough, Edmond Cotteau
1985 / 256 PAGES.
Language: Two editions: Italian, French
A remote realm hidden among the mountain recesses of southern India, the glory and misery of the rajahs.
A journey to Coorg, a remote corner of the Karnataka state in India, which garnered the interest of the British East India Company all the way back in the 18th century.
Through the memoirs of engineer W. Lambton, Lieutenant E. de Warren, chaplain J. Hough and naturalist E. Cotteau, the volume tells of the exploration of this region as a thrilling adventure of the White Man-conqueror exploring a savage land with its hostile morphological configuration.