Constance Gordon-Cumming

Broschiertes Buch

Wanderings in China

Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year, 1878/1879

Beschreibung

Victorian traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming roamed far and wide, from the Scottish Highlands to the American West, the islands of Hawaii to southern China. Her trip to Hong Kong was momentous: she arrived just before Christmas 1878 to inadvertently witness the terrible "Great Fire". She moved on to explore the streets, temples and Chinese New Year festivities in Guangzhou. She is that rare travel writer who, while plunging into the crowds, manages to observe the minutiae of life around her.

Autor

Constance Frederica "CF" Gordon-Cumming was born in Scotland in 1837, the twelfth child of a wealthy aristocratic family. The Gordon-Cummings were seemingly all travelers and explorers - planters in Sri Lanka, explorers of the River Nile, travelers to the Canadian interior, and at least one big-game hunter in Africa. Gordon-Cumming's first venture in foreign travel was a visit to her sister, who had married an officer stationed in India. She was a keen observer and self-taught landscape painter. Wanderings in China was first issued as two volumes in 1886. Paul French, who has introduced and annotated this reprint, was born in London and lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. His book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He lives in London, UK.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blacksmith Books
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 109mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9789887554769
• ISBN-10: 9887554766
• Artikelnr.: 66966426