How to See Ceylon.

WOOLF (Bella Sidney).

BY VIRGINIA WOOLF'S SISTER-IN-LAW

First edition. 10 halftone photographic plates. 8vo. Original pictorial board block printed in black and white, spine backing largely perished, binding starting, with first gathering loose. Paper evenly browned and friable, which some chipping at edges, mostly affecting first leaves. xvi, 190pp. Colombo, Printed and Published by Alfred Holmes for The Times of Ceylon Company, 1914.

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WOOLF (Bella Sidney).

How to See Ceylon.

The first pocket guidebook to be printed on the island of Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. This scarce title was compiled by Bella Sidney Woolf (1877-1960), the sister of Leonard Woolf and therefore sister-in-law to Virginia. Bella originally travelled to Ceylon in 1907 to visit her brother who was at the time a junior civil servant stationed in Kandy. She married twice, both times in Ceylon to other expatriates. Her second husband Tom Southorn was the colonial secretary of Hong Kong.

A rich and extensive guidebook, this volume contains all manner of information pertinent to a traveller visiting the country. This includes everything from customs duties, rickshaw tariffs, hotels, and an aid to the phonetic pronunciation of Sinhalese place names. Under the section titled "Sport in Ceylon" Woolf wryly notes that "for those anxious to 'go and kill something' there is ample opportunity".

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How to See Ceylon.

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