About the Book :
Little People of Asia is an
outcome of the author curio city to know about the little communities. This book
with full of sketches, describes about the little people from the various
communities of various regions covering most of the parts of Asia. This
illustrated publication details about their day-do-day life, Cultural and
Religious activities. Their costume and habitats.
About Author :
Olive Thorne Miller, She
had been associated for thirty one years with the American Ornithologists Union
joining four years after it was founded and being made Member in 1901 when that
class was established. Harriet Mann (1831-1918) for the more familiar name of
Olive Thorne Miller was the pen name adopted after her marriage Watts Todd
Miller. She published some three hundred and seventy five articles in religious
weeklies, Our Young Folks, The Youth Companion, The Independent, St. Nicholas,
The Chicago Tribune, Harper, Scribner, and other papers and magazines, on
various subjects and published five books, the best known of which were perhaps
Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, 1873, Queer Pets at Marcy, 1880, and Little
People of Asia, 1882.
