Isabella Lucy Bird

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. 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 available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hansebooks
• Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1899
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 167mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 865g
• ISBN-13: 9783337815608
• ISBN-10: 333781560X
• Artikelnr.: 57431990

Inhaltsangabe

1. Geographical and introductory
2. 'The model settlement'
3. Hangchow
4. The Hangchow medical mission hospitals
5. Shanghai to Hankow (Hankau)
6. The foreigners - Hankow and British trade
7. Chinese Hankow (Hankau)
8. Hankow to Ichang
9. Ichang
10. The Upper Yangtze
11. Rapids of the Upper Yangtze
12. Rapids and trackers
13. Life on the Upper Yangtze
14. The Yangtze and Kuei Fu
15. New Year's Day at Kuei-Chow Fu
16. Kuei Fu to Wan Hsien
17. Chinese charities
18. From Wan Hsien to San Tsan-Pu
19. Sze Chuan travelling
20. San-Tsan-Pu to Liang-Shan Hsien
21. Liang-Shan Hsien to Hsia-Shan-Po
22. Hsia-Shan-Po to Siao-Kiao
23. Siao-Kiao to Hsieh-Tien-Tze
24. Hsieh-Tien-Tze to Paoning Fu
25. Paoning Fu and Sin-Tien-Tze
26. Sin-Tien-Tze to Tze-Tung Hsien
27. Tze-Tung Hsien to Kuan Hsien
28. Kuan Hsien and Chengtu
29. Kuan Hsien to Sin-Wen-Ping
30. Sin-Wen-Ping to Li-Fan Ting
31. Lif-Fan Ting to Tsa-Ku-Lao
32. The 'Beyond'
33. The Man-Tze, I-Ren, or Shan-Shang-Ren
34. From Somo to Chengtu Fu
35. Downward bound
36. Luchow to Chung-King Fu
37. The journey's end
38. The opium poppy and its use
39. Notes on Protestant missions in China
Concluding remarks
Itinerary
Appendices
Index.