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Step into a travelogue of Luzon’s interior, where a travel party encounters hospitality, wealth, and hard truths about colonial life.
This edition follows a journey to Ilagan, the capital of Isabela, where grand dances, elegant dress, and local pride sit beside the stark realities of power, race, and shifting rule. Read about lavish dinners, performances, and social ceremonies that reveal a culture both refined and distant from metropolitan expectations. The narrative also explores the economic heartbeat of the town—tobacco wealth, Chinese merchants, and the rise of new communities in a changing political landscape. Through vivid scenes and firsthand impressions, you’ll sense a landscape on the cusp of modernization, with roads, railways, and enterprise shaping a country in transition.
- Vibrant scenes of ballrooms, costumes, and music that illuminate everyday life in a provincial capital.
- Observations on wealth, commerce, and the roles of different communities in a tobacco-centered town.
- Portraits of officials, hosts, and prisoners that reveal the tensions of power and change in Luzon.
- Reflections on travel, hospitality, and the evolving infrastructure that could transform a region.
Ideal for readers of historical travelogues and first‑hand accounts of life in the Philippine provinces, especially those curious about cultural encounters and the early 20th‑century transition.
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The legends of the wild tribes, the fierce Igor rotes and Negritos, have been doubtless the bug bear that has kept inquiring minds away from the most desirable and at the same time inaccessible places.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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It may seem strange to the average mind, that the island of Luzon, although having been in Spanish hands for so many years, is as yet not one-fourth discovered.
The most attractive portions of the island, the foothills and mountains of the interior, are unpenetrated.
The legends of the wild tribes, the fierce Igorrotes and Negritos, have been doubtless the bug-bear that has kept inquiring minds away from the most desirable and at the same time inaccessible places.
It cannot be long before the venturesome American will go into the provinces of Abra, Lepato, Bontoc and Benguet on the West, and Cagayan and Nueva Viscaya on the East, and find there in the fastnesses of the cannibalistic Igorrotes, the verification of the tales of reputed wealth in mines of gold and copper.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book chronicles the author's journey through the heart of Luzon to explore its people, lands, and history. Despite discouragement and warnings of fierce, headhunting Igorrotes, the author presses forward on a journey that reveals the true state of the island in the wake of the Spanish-American War. Encountering diverse terrain and customs, the traveler uncovers the resilience and hospitality of the locals. The author's respect for the Filipinos shines through as he delves into their struggle for autonomy while providing valuable historical and cultural context. This book offers a rare, firsthand perspective on a pivotal moment in Philippine history, painting a vivid picture of a land and people in transition. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781332204700_0
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