Used hardcover in good condition. Dust jacket has slight damage at top from handling, cover and pages in good condition. 315 pages. Published by Dome Publications & International Peace University of South Africa, 2007. ISBN 0620406666.

Penned by a man who described himself as "not a man of learning", he nevertheless went on to record his journeys in a fastidious, honest style tinged with the absolute wonder of a God-fearing 19th century Indian Muslim.

This is not to say that the book is plodding and pedestrian, far from it. The English is good; the narrative is refreshingly naïve, evocatively descriptive and fascinatingly detailed. We are transported to the world as it was in the late 19th century in a fashion that would have done seasoned travel narrators such as Richard Burton and Jean-Louis Burckhardt proud.

The book is wholly unique because, as opposed to most travel writers of the era who were men of the West exploring the East, Hajee Sullaiman Shah Mahomed was a man of the East exploring the West.