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Through the Yang-Tse Gorges - Trade And Travel in Western China. Third Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are availa...

An account of Archibald John Little's travels through the Szechuan province of China to the Tibetan border, published in 1901.

Little's diary of his journey by native boat up the Yangtze River in 1883 was published in London in 1888.

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Excerpt from Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, With Map and IllustrationsIN publishing an account of what might almost be called A Walking Tour on the Thibetan Border, I tender no addition to the records of geographical exploration, but simply a picture of China as it exists far removed from Western influence - a China which must ere long pass away as old Japan has done, though with slower steps. Many travellers ...

Excerpt from Out in China HE is such a really good fellow, said Forbes, an Outport Consul, in Shanghai for a holiday, though nominally to consult the dentist. 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, preservi...

Excerpt from Gleanings From Fifty Years in China It was while engaged in his earlier trips on the Upper Yangtse that Mr. Little collected material for the inter esting book (published in 1888) entitled Through the Yangtse Gorges, which established his reputation as a graphic and sympathetic writer on China. This was followed some years later (1901) by Mount Omi and Beyond, which introduced us to the little-known region of Szechuan on the Thib...

Excerpt from Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them Arriving in Shanghai. - My First Tea-season. Inside a Chinese City. - Shanghai Gardens - In the Romantic East at last! 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 reconstru...

Excerpt from Marriage in China, Vol. 5 To those Consuls and Commissioners of Chinese Customs who have shown me kindliness in China, this book is jointly dedicated. Some of them may feel surprise on meeting therein other men arbitrarily promoted to the posts they themselves occupy, but no one of them need fear being confronted by his own portrait or caricature, either in his own Consulate or Commissionership, or elsewhere, though here and the...

Excerpt from The Far East During Mr. Little's absence in China, the proofs of this book were kindly read for me by my colleague at the London School of Economics, Mr. A. J. Sargent, to whom my thanks are due. Mr. Little returned in time to see the last revise. 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 histori...

Excerpt from Round About My Peking Garden Pehtang or Northern Cathedral, when intact, was but a fine church, built to replace that earlier Northern Cathedral to which the Dowager Empress had objected as overlooking her garden, and which was therefore just about to be ceded to her on the occasion of our previous visit. But now its facade riddled with shot, its aisles propped up by many beams, the trees behind with their bark gnawed off - one o...

Excerpt from The Land of the Blue Gown May those who read these pages gain at least some insight into the many redeeming qualities of that last survival from the Past of Nineveh and Babylon, of Alexandria and Pompeii - the Chinese nation of to-day. 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. Fo...