The back blocks of China. A narrative of experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shanghai and the Irrawadi

Jack, R. Logan

Published by Edward Arnold, publisher to the India Office, London, 1904

About this Item

First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 269, [1], [2] ads, 16 (Arnold catalogue); largely unopened; frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 15 plates showing 27 illustrations from photographs; original pictorial black cloth stamped in red and gilt on upper cover, in gilt on spine; a very good, sound, and clean copy. "The author and three others were prospecting along the Upper Yangtze in Szechuan when the Boxer Rebellion broke out. At the urgent prompting of the British Consul at Chung King they fled through Eastern Tibet to Bhamo on the Burmese frontier" (Yakushi). Yakushi J03.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The back blocks of China. A narrative of experiences among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans and Kachins, between Shanghai and the Irrawadi
• Publisher: Edward Arnold, publisher to the India Office, London
• Publication Date: 1904
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asia
  • China
  • Tibet