UID:
almafu_9960117877602883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 334 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) :
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illustrations (black and white), maps (colour), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-70921-8
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
Content:
Written by one of the most prolific writers on China at the turn of the century, this 1905 publication was intended as a guide for travellers rather than as a scientific study of Asian landscape and culture. Little, a well-known merchant and traveller, spent fifty years of his life exploring the Orient. The book is structured with a chapter dedicated to each region of China and the 'Dependencies' (Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, Tibet, Indo-China and Korea), as well as Siam and Japan. Little proves himself a shrewd observer of both landscape and peoples, and the content of his work is wonderfully detailed. He manages to encompass a wide range of subjects into his survey, including natural resources, the development of railways, trade routes and meteorology, as well as a history of the land mass and populations. The book is supplemented with several maps and illustrations.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1905.
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Includes index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-01387-2
Language:
English
