Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Pieter van der Werff, Frans Snyders and Vasily Vereshchagin. Travels in India written for a Russian newspaper - the caves, the fakirs, the temples and the mysteries the author claimed to have been shown. Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society and this is her most readable book, whatever one concludes about her. This edition is bound with a gallery of 59 plates of painting, including works by Abraham de Verwer, Ludolf Bakhuizen and Hendrick Dubbels, depicting Dutch East India Company ships and directors.