From the caves and jungles of Hindostan /

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Author / Creator:Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891.
Uniform title:Iz peshcher i debreĭ Indostana. English
Imprint:[Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (1 electronic document ([435] pages))
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205621
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ISBN:9781775416036
1775416038
9781776510047
1776510046
Notes:Archived by the National Library of New Zealand.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 31, 2011).
"First published in 1880."
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Translated from Russian.
Summary:H.P. Blavatsky, or Madame Blavatsky, was a founder of Theosophy and the Theosophical Society, and a prolific traveler. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan is an account of her time in India. From the text: Late in the evening of the sixteenth of February, 1879, after a rough voyage which lasted thirty-two days, joyful exclamations were heard everywhere on deck. ""Have you seen the lighthouse?"" ""There it is at last, the Bombay lighthouse."" Cards, books, music, everything was forgotten. Everyone rushed on deck. The moon had not risen as yet, and, in spite of the starry tropical.