One Week in the Philippines (November 1897)

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hard bound, 75 pp., black & white low-resolution photos from other publications.

2nd printing (first printing in 1987); Translation of the highly interesting yet virtually unknown description of Spanish colonial Philippines in its final stage and the beginnings of the Philippine Revolution, by this French writer/traveller during his one-week Manila stay. It is the last chapter of “En Escale : De Ceylan Aux Philippines. Ceylan, Singapour, Saïgon, Hong-Kong, Macao, Canton, Manille, Une Semaine Aux Philippines”, originally published in Paris in 1900 (not cited in this translation), with several subsequent editions including 1911 (cited here as translation basis) & 1927.