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Three Years in Western China - A Narrative of Three Journeys in Ssu-Ch-Uan, Kuiei-Chow, and Yun-Nan
London, George Philip & Son, 1890 (first edition). 1 volume vo8, xii-302 pp., rebound in modern full leather, with seven full page illustrations on 8 (one missing). The South-West china map is also missing, a good copy.
A famous travel account in Suth west China. Contents: Up the Yang-Tzse to Western China - Ch'ung-K'ing to the Capital of Kuei-Chow - Westward to Yun-Nan - Through North-Eastern Yun-Nan to the Yang-Tsze - From Ch'ung-K'ing to the Capital of Ssu-Ch'uan - Through Lolodom and the Valley of Chien-Ch'ang - Through Caindu to Carajan - Ta-Li Fu to Yun-Nan Fu - Through the west of Kuei-Chow to the Yang-Tsze - To the White Wax Country, The sacred Mount O-Mei, and the Highest Navigable Point of the Yang-Tsze - Chinese Insect White Wax - The Trade of Western and South-Western China - The Pho.
Three Years in Western China - A narrative of Three Journeys
London, George Philip & Son. (1897), reprinted by Ch'eng-wen Publishing Co, Taipei, 1972. 1 volume in-12, 302 pp., red cloth hardcover, very good condition.
Three journeys to Szechuan, Kweichow, and Yunnan are narrated in this book. The author descries the habits, customs, and superstitions of the indigenous population in the areas. Also noted are topography, agriculture, crops and trade.
