The Yangtze Valley and beyond : an account of journeys in China, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory
(2022)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Earnshaw Books Ltd, 2022
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9789888107926 MWT15031057, 9888107925 15031057
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Isabella Bird was greatest travel writer of the late 19th century and this is her master work - an account of a journey in 1897 from Shanghai, up the Yangtze River, through the Gorges, overland to Chengdu, then up into the mountains of eastern Tibet. She almost died twice in riots along the way, which she admits she found annoying. This is a lively and remarkable picture of China at the brink of huge changes, by a smart and sympathetic observer
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