ACROSS CHINA ON FOOT: LIFE IN THE INTERIOR AND THE REFORM MOVEMENT

DINGLE, Edwin John (1881-1972)

Verlag: Arrowsmith & Simpkin Marshall, London, 1911

Beschreibung

First Edition. Original dark red buckram with black lettering and Chinese characters on the front, spine lettering slightly faded. Demy 8vo (8.75 x 5.5 ins); pp xvi, 446; 107 plates of photographs including the frontispiece. Light shelf rubbing to head and tail of the spine with some shallow rolling, also tips of corner rubbed. A fine copy. Dingle crossed the Chinese empire on foot from the Yangtze Gorges to Burma. He was one of the first white people to settle in China, travelling to Tibet in 1910 to study advanced spiritual methods from the Tibetan Lamas. He went on to spend the next twenty years living in the East, in mainly China, India, Tibet and Burma. During the 1911 Revolution, he was in Wuhan and then Shanghai. He witnessed the brutal civil wars in Hankou and Hanyang. He also published 'The New Atlas and Commercial Gazetteer of China', considered to be one of the best resources on China of its day. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19423

Bibliografische Details

Titel: ACROSS CHINA ON FOOT: LIFE IN THE INTERIOR ...

Verlag: Arrowsmith & Simpkin Marshall, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1911

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage

Art des Buches: Book