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The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither: Stanfords Travel Classics

Autor Isabella Bird
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 oct 2017
Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographical Society, visited Malaya, Singapore, Indo-China and Hong Kong in 1879.
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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
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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.