India

The author reveals that the book is description of India?s natural beauty with its forests and its jungles. The sun dawns on a forest of vegetation, an ocean of eternal greenery; whilst a boundless plain of mystery and silence stretches from his feet to the extreme horizon. He watches the light dawning on this silent wilderness of green from the summit of a hill that rises like an island out of the plains. It is India of the forests and the jungles, though veiled in mist. In the centre of Ceylon, sheltered by interlacing trees, there is a spot of profoundest peace it is the place where the marvellous Anuradhapura stood?the city which was buried in a night of leaves more than two thousand years ago. It is a wonderfully fascinating book, conveying vivid pictures of the charm of India and the marvels of its antiquity. The book contains six chapters. It discusses The Buried City, The Rock Temple, The Home of the Maharajah of Travancore, In the Land of the Great Palms, In Famished India, Towards Benares and an Index. It contains also 18 beautiful illustrations to delineate the subject vividly. The book was first published in June 1906.