Isabella Lucy Bird

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9781108014731
• ISBN-10: 1108014739
• Artikelnr.: 30363856

Autorenporträt

William de Lange studied Japanese language and culture at the universities of Leiden and Waseda. He is the author and translator of a number of books on Japanese history, culture, and language.

Inhaltsangabe

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.