A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia
by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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About this eBook
- Author
- Kendall, Elizabeth Kimball
- Title
- A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia
- Credits
- Produced by the Bookworm, Meredith Bach, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Mongolia -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27481
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27481
- Release Date
- December 10, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber's Note: — A WAYFARER IN CHINA — A WAYFARER IN CHINA — IMPRESSIONS OF A TRIP ACROSS WEST CHINA AND MONGOLIA
- 2.By ELIZABETH KENDALL — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS — BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY — COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY ELIZABETH KENDALL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED — TO THE HAPPY MEMORY OF MY MOTHER THE ONE WHO ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD
- 3.PREFACE — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.SUGGESTIONS FOR PRONOUNCING CHINESE NAMES IN THE TEXT
- 5.MONEY, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
- 6.A WAYFARER IN CHINA — For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
- 7.A WAYFARER IN CHINA
- 8.CHAPTER I — ACROSS TONKING
- 9.CHAPTER II — DAYS IN YUNNAN-FU
- 10.CHAPTER III — ACROSS YUNNAN
- 11.CHAPTER IV — THE CHIEN-CH'ANG
- 12.CHAPTER V — ON THE MANDARIN ROAD
- 13.CHAPTER VI — TACHIENLU
- 14.CHAPTER VII — THE LESSER TRAIL
- 15.CHAPTER VIII — ACROSS CHENGTU PLAIN
- 16.CHAPTER IX — OMEI SHAN, THE SACRED
- 17.CHAPTER X — DOWN THE YANGTSE
- 18.CHAPTER XI — FROM THE GREAT RIVER TO THE GREAT WALL
- 19.CHAPTER XII — THE MONGOLIAN GRASSLAND
- 20.CHAPTER XIII — ACROSS THE DESERT OF GOBI
- 21.CHAPTER XIV — URGA, THE SACRED CITY
- 22.CHAPTER XV — NORTH TO THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY
- 23.CHAPTER XVI — A FEW FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CHINA — THE END
- 24.INDEX — CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS U·S·A
- 25.FOOTNOTES
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