Description
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Table of Contents
Part I Volume 4: The Far East George Wingrove Cooke, China: Being 'The Times' Special Correspondence from China in the Years 1857-58 (1859); Capt. William Gill, RE, The River of Golden Sand: The Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah, introductory essay by Col. Henry Yule, CB, RE (1880); Constance Gordon Cumming, Wanderings in China (1886); Archibald Little, Through the Yang-Tse Gorges or Trade and Travel in Western China (1888); Mrs Archibald Little [A. E. N. Bewicke], Intimate China (1899); C. Pemberton Hodgson, A Residence at Nagasaki and Hakodate in 1859-1860 with an Account of Japan Generally [and] with a Series of Letters on Japan, by His Wife (1861); Arthur Adams, Travels of a Naturalist in Japan and Manchuria (1870); Edmund Gregory Holtham, Eight Years in Japan, 1873-1881 (1883); Major Henry Knollys, Sketches of Life in Japan (1887); Hon. Lewis [Strange] Wingfield, Wanderings of a Globe-Trotter in the Far East (1889)
