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Textbook - Island Harvests: The Far East

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book

Production date

1959

Object number

2009.42

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Geography textbook used at Trinity School for Girls.

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paper

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Longmans Colour Geographies
Unit 10
Island Harvests:
The Far East


Longsmans Colour Geographies
by
T.Herdman, M.Sc.

Maps By
Ric Wylam

Unit 10:
Island Harvests: The Far East

Contents
The Fabled East
The Island Groups
The Island of Ceylon
A Meeting-Place of Peoples
Tin and Rubber from Malaya
Java and its Volcanoes
The Dyaks of Borneo
The Phillipine Islands
Pacific Islands
The Summing Up

Trinity School for Girls
Geography Dept.


The Way to the Spice Islands
1. Calicut [Kozhikode, Kerala, India]
2. Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
3. Malacca
4. Java
5. Moluccas


17. In Java. Note the bananas, the paddy fields (where the rice is grown), the distant volcano.
18. In Malaya, Indians are working among the seedling rubber trees.
19. Market day in an Indonesian Village
20. Beach Scene on a pacific Island, The Trees are coconut palms.