Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration
A Journey of Surprises
Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration
ISBN: 978-1-108-01409-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Published posthumously in 1910, Archibald Little's memoir of his journey across the Yunnan Province in Southwest China was one of the first comprehensive accounts of the region to be published in English. Little, a skilled linguist, worked as a merchant in China for over fifty years and opened up the Upper Yangtze area to steam-powered commerce. He was well known for his intrepid travels into territories not yet explored by Westerners, and his record of this journey was originally published as a series of letters to the North China Herald. This book also contains Little's account of the building of the French Railway Line to Yunnan-Fu, which provided a trade route from India to the Upper Yangtze region. Across Yunnan was completed and edited by Little's wife after his death in 1908. The book includes a detailed map of the area and several photographs.
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Editorial note; Introduction; Part I. Between Two Capitals; Part II. Yunnan-Fu; Part III. From Yunnan-Fu to Lao-Kai; Part IV. Through Tonking to Hongkong; Index.
