Travel writings: 'A Grandmother Visits the Philippines', n.d.
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- Title
- Travel writings: 'A Grandmother Visits the Philippines', n.d.
- Date
- 1949
- Traveller
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- Cannon, Cornelia James
- Reference
- MC 553, 13.3
- Region
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- South-East Asia
- Country
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- Philippines
- Places
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- Luzon
- Baguio
- Bontoc
- Cebu
- Jolo
- Mindanao
- Manila
- Pagsanjan
- Negros
- Zamboanga
- Cotabato
- Davao City
- Cagayan
- Bacolod
- Description
- An edited version of Cornelia's 'Travel writings, Philippines trip in 1949' (ref. MC 553, 13.2). Cornelia begins her writings with a brief summary of her life up to this point and her past travels. With her husband deceased and her children grown up, she decides to travel around the islands of the Philippines alone, at the age of seventy-two. She explains her motives for wanting to travel to the Philippines. Her writings feature lengthy comment and opinion on how the Philippines has changed since American and Japanese occupation. She spends time recalling the violent events of conflict and wars that makes up the Philippines' past. She also focuses on public education, agriculture, the economy, and the local inhabitants. She travels around the area where the Igorot people live and she visits a leper colony on Cebu.
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