Tom Cringle's letters on practical subjects, suggested by experiences in Bombay
- Bib ID:
- 918630
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cringle, Tom, 1807-1873?, author
- Printer:
- Bombay : Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla.
- Description:
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- Bombay : Re-printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1863
- vii, 194 pages : folded map, table ; 21 cm.
- Summary:
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This volume was originally published as a series of letters to the editor in Bombay newspapers. The ninety letters collected here provide a wide-ranging overview of contemporary life in Bombay and include reports on Indian farming, tramways, the burning of the Hindoo dead, the Indian Mutiny, and the Colaba refugees. There is much devoted to maritime issues including departures and arrivals of steamers, an account of the “Madras” on its voyage from Bombay to Aden, notes on Merchant Seamen, shear hulks, and even the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. The map depicts the new Wet-Dock scheme, and includes “A Tiger Adventure”, involving the author hiding behind a curtain while being stalked by a tiger, his only weapon being his lit cigar. —James Cummins Bookseller, July 2016.
- Biography/History:
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“Tom Cringle” is a nom-de-plume used by William Walker of Bombay and Melbourne. It is derived from Tom Cringle’s Log, published pseudonymously by Michael Scott (1789-1835).
- Notes:
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- "Originally published in the Bombay daily newspapers as letters to the editors."
- National Library's copy is bound with the author's The hand, and physiognomy of the human form ... Melbourne, 1868; Australian sand-bar harbours and rivers ... Melbourne, 1866; Capital without coin [Melbourne, 186-]; Morell, G. A. On the defences of Port Jackson. Sydney, 1865; and Sloggett, W. H. Remarks on the operation of the Contagious Diseases Act in Devonport and Plymouth. Devonport [England], [1870?].
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Letters on practical subjects suggested by experiences in Bombay.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1873
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1863
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