The Golden Chersonese is a travel book written by Isabella Bird, the greatest travel writer of the 19th century, and maybe of all time. It recounts her travels in 1883 through southern China and into the interior of the Malay Peninsula- which in the age of Ancient Greece and Rome was known as the Golden Chersonese. It was ground-breaking reportage at the time because many of the places she visited were totally cut off from the outside world. Her descriptions of all aspects of life in old Malaya have a huge value because she saw it herself before it changed, and her writing style is forever entertaining.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Voeux Road Central
Hongkong
Zielgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 208 mm
Breite: 145 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-988-8552-09-2 (9789888552092)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Isabella L. Bird was born in 1831, and was one of the most well-traveled and intrepid of English explorers in the 19th century. She died in 1904. Graham Earnshaw is a writer and publisher who has long lived in the Chinese world. He has written and published a number of books, including an account of his continuing walk across China, The Great Walk of China (2010).
