Alfred raquez (16 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 590 pages. French language. 9.49x6.26x1.40 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAlfred Raquez (Author) Alfred Raquez was the pseudonym of Joseph Gervais, a bankrupt French lawyer who fled to the Far East in the late 1890s and had access to some of the powerful players in French Indochina. He .

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den Autor Alfred Raquez was the pseudonym of Joseph Gervais, a bankrupt French lawyer who fled to the Far East in the late 1890s and had access to some of the powerful players in French Indochina. He wrote prolifically about C.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 553 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - China, 1898: a time of war, intrigue and growing foreign power. Onto the scene comes a Parisian fugitive with a gifted pen and a journalist's eye. Alfred Raquez drifts from Indochina to Hong Kong, Macao and Canton before falling in with a group of shady entrepreneurs in Shanghai with interests far up the Yuan River. In short order, Raquez sets off on a rollicking voyage into the heart of the lawless Miao-country, pen and camera in hand. The result is a richly recorded adventure told from the perspective of a wandering French boulevardier. 'In the Land of Pagodas' takes readers on a picaresque journey that is as much 'Moulin Rouge' as it is 'Heart of Darkness', and in its narration reveals much about the derring-do and startling hypocrisy of the colonial enterprise.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Laos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ancient pastoral existence and the modern machine age. Alfred Raquez's Laotian Pages vividly describes his exploration of the diverse kingdoms of Laos at the turn of the last century with the same Parisian verve and ironic turn of mind that he brought to his first travel book, In the Land of Pagodas. Raquez's keen eye and sensitivity to the exotic in both nature and human culture, combined with a mastery of the genre and his hallmark conversational style, transport the reader to the largely unexplored frontier of fin-de-siècle Indochina.…

Shanghaï, Imprimerie de la presse orientale, 1900 (sous cachet de relais à l'adresse de Paris, Librairie orientale et américaine G. P. Maisonnneuve). Un vol. au format pt in-4 (263 x 197 mm) de vii - 429 pp. et 1 f. bl. Reliure postérieure de pleine toile taupe, plats jansénistes, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin ébène, titre doré, tête mouchetée, couvertures conservées. Edition originale ; dont les plats de la couverture papier originelle ont été conservés. Le premier, agréablement illustré. L'iconographie est complétée par 56 planches photographiques. Impression de Shaghaï. ''L'ayant souvent vu à l'oeuvre, j'ai été témoin de la volonté de l'auteur de rendre compte par lui-même, de son désir acharné de savoir et d'observer''. Rousseurs sur les tranches. Du reste, très belle condition. Peu courant.…