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Author: Constance Gordon-Cumming Publisher: ISBN: 9789887554769 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Victorian traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming roamed far and wide, from the Scottish Highlands to the American West, the islands of Hawaii to southern China. Her trip to Hong Kong was momentous: she arrived just before Christmas 1878 to inadvertently witness the terrible "Great Fire". She moved on to explore the streets, temples and Chinese New Year festivities in Guangzhou. She is that rare travel writer who, while plunging into the crowds, manages to observe the minutiae of life around her.
Author: Constance Gordon-Cumming Publisher: ISBN: 9789887554769 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Victorian traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming roamed far and wide, from the Scottish Highlands to the American West, the islands of Hawaii to southern China. Her trip to Hong Kong was momentous: she arrived just before Christmas 1878 to inadvertently witness the terrible "Great Fire". She moved on to explore the streets, temples and Chinese New Year festivities in Guangzhou. She is that rare travel writer who, while plunging into the crowds, manages to observe the minutiae of life around her.
Author: Robert Fortune Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 322
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Three Years Wanderings In The Northern Provinces Of China is a narrative travelogue by Robert Fortune. It depicts the author, a botanist studying silk and cotton in the northern provinces while also dealing with local pirates!
Author: C. F. Gordon Cumming Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330578018 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 562
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Excerpt from Wanderings in China You will wonder when you receive this letter posted in Hong-Kong, where I hope to arrive to-morrow! It is not that my four months in Japan have by any means exhausted its fascination, - on the contrary, I purpose returning there in spring, when the double cherry-blossoms are in their glory; but meanwhile the hills are white with snow, and I have been nearly frozen, living in paper houses, without fires - only such warmth as we could extract from ornamental little charcoal braziers. So I have fled southward with the swallows, and sailed from Nagasaki, intending to spend Christmas at Shanghai. There, however, I only stayed three days, for the horrid river of yellow mud and the hideousness of the flat country round, and, above all, notwithstanding the genuine kindness of several residents, the oppressive dreariness of finding myself alone in a great doll hotel, where there was not a creature to be seen except Chinese servants, depressed me to such a pitch, that I resolved to risk spending Christmas-day at sea rather than remain there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Robert Fortune Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781528345996 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 480
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Excerpt from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries, With an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc The Author has been much gratified with the favourable manner in which the first edition of his work has been received by the public. It has been suggested by his friends, that it would be desirable in a new edition to enter more fully into the subject of Tea. He has therefore given some statistical information, tending to show the quantity of this production which is consumed by the Chinese themselves, as well as what they could spare for the European market, in the event of a greater demand arising from the reduction of tea duties. Attention has also been directed to our dominions in the north-west of India, which seem to possess all the requisites of a tea country. These, and some other additions which have been made to the work, will, it is hoped, render it more interesting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Constance Gordon-Cumming
Author: Constance Gordon-Cumming
Author: Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming
Author: Robert Fortune
Author: Robert Fortune
Author: Constance F. Gordon Cumming
Author: C. F. Gordon Cumming
Author: Constance Fredericia Gordon Cumming
Author: Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming
Author: Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming
Author: Robert Fortune