The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither: Stanfords Travel Classics
Autor Isabella Birden Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 oct 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781912081714
ISBN-10: 1912081717
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 127 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
Colecția Stanfords Travel Classics
Seria Stanfords Travel Classics
ISBN-10: 1912081717
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 127 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
Colecția Stanfords Travel Classics
Seria Stanfords Travel Classics
Notă biografică
Isabella Bird was a nineteenth century English explorer, writer, and natural historian whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographical Society.In 1879 she visited Malaya, Singapore, Indo-China and Hong Kong, writing 23 letters home to her sister Hennie in Scotland, and naming the collection The Golden Chersonese, the ancient Greek name for the Malay Peninsula.
Cuprins
Introductory chapter; 1. The steamer Volga; 2. A delightful climate; 3. The S. S. Kin Kiang; 4. 'Faithful unto Death'; 5. Portuguese missionaries; 6. A Cochin China river; 7. Beauties of the Tropics; 8. St. Andrew's Cathedral; 9. The Lieutenant-Governor of Malacca; 10. Malacca mediaevalism; 11. A Mangrove swamp; 12. The tomb of a 'great prophet'; 13. The appurtenances of civilisation; 14. The S. S. Rainbow; 15. Tiger mosquitos; 16. A yachting voyage; 17. The Dingings; 18. Province Wellesley; 19. The Chinese in Larut; 20. Novel circumstances; 21. A Malay interior; 22. A pleasant canter; 23. Gang murders; Appendix; Index.