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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
by Bishop, Mrs. J.F. [Isabella L Bird]
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- Good - overall
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Good - overall. This is the last published work of Bird, one of the most famous of all women travelers; she visited Australia, Hawaii, the Rocky Mountains, Japan, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Persia, Kurdistan & Turkey. She was the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, an honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, a member of the Royal Photographic Society and an honorary member of the Oriental Society of Peking. Cordier, Sinica, 355. Robinson, Wayward Women, pp. 81-83. Lge 8vo, xv, 557pp, with folding colored map and 116 photographic illustrations. Complete with the errata slip (browned), top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Original green pictorial cloth, spine sunned, rubbed, marked and spine tips damaged. Internally a very nice copy.
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- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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- Title
- 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
- Author
- Bishop, Mrs. J.F. [Isabella L Bird]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good - overall
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHINA; WOMEN;
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