Somerset Playne

Somerset Playne was a British explorer who travelled the British Empire and wrote books about it.[2]

Somerset Playne
Born1875 (1875)[1]
England
Died1944 (1945)[1]
Alma materOxford University
OccupationExplorer

Playne was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[2] In order to publish his travelogue, Playne started a publishing house named "The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Company" in 1908.[2] First he travelled to British East Africa and wrote a book about it. Later he wrote books about Cape Colony, the Orange Free State, and New Zealand between 1908 and 1913.

Playne arrived in India in 1913 and stayed in the Madras Club (now the Express Avenue mall) of Madras.[2] He travelled almost 7,000 miles on motorcycle and produced his travelogue about southern India. Due to World War I he could not return to England. He stayed some more years and wrote books about the Punjab and Bengal.

Works
  • East Africa (British) its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources (1908)[3]
  • Cape Colony (Cape province) its history, commerce, industries, and resources (1910)[4]
  • Southern India: Its History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources (1914)[5]
  • Bengal And Assam, Behar And Orissa: Their History, People, Commerce, And Industrial Resources (1917)[6]
  • The Bombay presidency, the United Provinces, the Punjab etc. : their history, people, commerce and natural resources. (1920)[7]
  • Indian states : a biographical, historical, and administrative survey (1922)[8]

References
  1. "Somerset Playne, adventurer and author". Rotorua Museum. 2020-05-11. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  2. V, Sriram (2015-02-27). "When the guide turns a hundred". The Hindu. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  3. Playne, Somerset; Gale, Frank Holderness (1908). "East Africa (British) its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources". Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Pub. Co. OCLC 809465552. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  4. Playne, Somerset (1910). "Cape Colony (Cape province) its history, commerce, industries, and resources,". the Foreign and colonial compiling and Pub. Co. OCLC 9423681. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  5. Playne, Somerset; Bond, J. W; Wright, Arnold (2004). "Southern India: its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources". Asian Educational Services. OCLC 58540809. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  6. Playne, Somerset; Bond, J. W; Wright, Arnold (1917). "Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce, and industrial resources. Compiled by S. Playne, F.R.G.S., assisted by J.W. Bond. Edited by Arnold Wright. [With illustrations". OCLC 1079126360. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  7. Playne, Somerset (1920). "The Bombay presidency, the United Provinces, the Punjab etc.: their history, people, commerce and natural resources". Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Pub. Co. OCLC 220525719. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  8. Playne, Somerset; Solomon, R. V; Bond, J. W; Wright, Arnold (2006). "Indian states: a biographical, historical, and administrative survey". Asian Educational Services. OCLC 76941475. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
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