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Anbieter: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
London [1935], Blackie. Brown cloth, 231p., 32 b.w. photos, folding map, 8 x 11 cm. dark stain to back cover, else solid 14 x 22 cm. FIRST EDITION A fascinating primary resource by a British woman traveler who accompanied her husband who was a British official. They lived for several years in the Shan States, Burma and then in Yunnan, southern China. * This work covers their sojourn to Rangoon and Mandalay, up the Irrawaddy, life at Sinlumkaba, on tour in the Kachin Hills, social life of the Kachins. The frontier meeting, camp life at Nawngma, Meng Mao and its rulers, life at Bhamo, touring on the Irrawaddy. Elephants, the Lisus, from Bhamo to Tengyueh, its countryside. The Chinese Shan States, the Shweli and the Salween & the Valley of Enchantment. * A most highly readable work, with keen observations on ethnographic life, costume, traditions, customs of the native hill tribe people. * Fascinating primary resource by a British woman, excellent pre-World War II study. *.
Anbieter: RARE ORIENTAL BOOK CO., ABAA, ILAB, Aptos, CA, USA
London [1935], Blackie. Brown cloth, 231p., 32 b.w. photos, folding map, 14 x 22 cm., contents clean, solid. FIRST EDITION A fascinating primary resource by a British woman traveler who accompanied her husband who was a British official. They lived for several years in the Shan States, Burma and then in Yunnan, southern China. * This work covers their sojourn to Rangoon and Mandalay, up the Irrawaddy, life at Sinlumkaba, on tour in the Kachin Hills, social life of the Kachins. The frontier meeting, camp life at Nawngma, Meng Mao and its rulers, life at Bhamo, touring on the Irrawaddy. Elephants, the Lisus, from Bhamo to Tengyueh, its countryside. The Chinese Shan States, the Shweli and the Salween & the Valley of Enchantment. * A most highly readable work, with keen observations on ethnographic life, costume, traditions, customs of the native hill tribe people. * Fascinating primary resource by a British woman, excellent pre-World War II study. *.