Across China on Foot - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...as that from which he started his morning tramp. I went by the following route:--Length of Height stage. above sea. 1st day--Anning-cheo.... 70 li.. 6,300 ft. 2nd day--Lao-ya-kwan.... 70 li.. 6,800 ft. A long, winding and physically-exhausting road took me from Sha-chiao-kai to Yin-wa-kwan, the most elevated pass between Yiin-nan-fu and Tali-fu, and continued over barren mountains, bereft of shelter, and void of vegetation and people, to Pupfing. A rough climb of an hour and a half then took me to the top of the next mountain, where roads and ruts followed a high plateau for about thirty li, and with a precipitous descent I entered the plain of Yiin-nan-i. Then over and between barren hills, passing a small lake and plain with the considerable town of Yiin-nan-hsien ten li to the right, I continued in a narrow valley and over mountains in the same uncultivated condition to Hungay, situated in a swampy valley. Having crossed this valley, another rough climb brings the traveller to the top of the next pass, Ting-chi-ling, whence the road descends, and leads by a well-cultivated valley to Chao-chow. After an easy thirty li we reached Hsiakwan, one of the Hsiakwan would be supplied by a branch line of the main railway in the Kunlong scheme advocated by Major H. R. Davies, leaving at Mi-tu, to the south of Hungay.--E. J. D. largest commercial cities in the province, lying at the foot of the most magnificent mountain range in Yiin-nan, and by the side of the most famous lake. A paved road takes one in to his destination at Talifu, where I was welcomed by Dr. and Mrs. Clark, of the China Inland Mission, and hospitably entertained for a couple of days. The roads in general from Yiin-nan-fu to Tali-fu were worse than any I have met from Chung-king...
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About the Author:
Edwin Dingle was an English journalist born in 1881. In the early 1900s, he was working in Singapore. He made his famous trip across China in 1909 and 1910, and then settled in Shanghai, where he lived until 1927 as the proprietor of the newspaper China and Far East Finance and Commerce. He then went to the United States, where he founded a health and sex cult, which kept him occupied in a world far away from the one found in this book until the ripe old age of 91.
Review:
“Dingle stands in the great tradition of the gentleman explorers of China for whom the experience was everything, preparation was minimal and caution invariably thrown to the wind. Thankfully he recorded his exploits for us to share.” —Paul French, author of Carl Crow, a Tough Old China Hand
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- PublisherTutis Digital Pub
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 818456614X
- ISBN 13 9788184566147
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages608
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