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PARKS (FANNY) Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana... Illustrated with Sketches from Nature, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Pelham Richardson, 1850 image 1
PARKS (FANNY) Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana... Illustrated with Sketches from Nature, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Pelham Richardson, 1850 image 2
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PARKS (FANNY)
Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana... Illustrated with Sketches from Nature, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Pelham Richardson, 1850

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[PARKS (FANNY)]

Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; with Revelations of Life in the Zenana... Illustrated with Sketches from Nature, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 49 plates (20 chromolithographed or coloured by hand), folding lithographed panorama of the Himalayas in pocket at end of volume, publisher's blue pictorial cloth [Abbey Travel 476; Mendelssohn III, pp. 630-31], large 8vo, Pelham Richardson, 1850

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Fanny Parks arrived in India in 1822, as the wife of a civil servant in the East India Company. Stationed at Allahabad, she travelled extensively, visiting Agra, Fatehgarh, Cawnpore, Meerut, Delhi, and Landour in the Himalayas. As a woman she was able to enter the Zenana, witnessing marriage and religious ceremonies not reported on by male writers. Volume 2 includes chapters on Cape Town and South Africa.

Provenance: Catherine Wilton, early ownership inscription of title of volume one.

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