Indian Pages and Pictures - Rajputana, Sikkim, the Punjab and Kashmir (Hardcover)

1912. With 63 illustrations. Mr. Shoemaker is a trained traveler. He has the time and the means to travel in luxury and he has developed his qualities as a keen observer by travels in various parts of the world. He possesses excellent descriptive powers and his pages are sprinkled liberally with humor; giving them a certain personal interest and charm that add to the attractiveness of his travel records. In this volume he describes his year's sojourn in the land of John Company. He has confined the text to those sections of India with which the public, American at least, is but little acquainted. Contents: The Outward Voyage; Oudeypour; Chitor; Jeypur and Gulta; Akbar's Town of Victory; The Seven Cities of Delhi; Benares; Buddha; The Snows; Amritsar and the Sikhs; Lahore; Punjab and Its History; Life in Peshawur; The Khyber Pass; The Journey to Kashmir; Life on a Bed of Roses; The Vale of Kashmir at Last; Srinagar; Merchants of Kashmir; River Life; Temple of Martand; Magnificent Shalimar; Last Days in the Vale; Departure from the Vale; The Hot Land; and Life on the Mooltan.