ISBN: 9788776942014 - in the land of pagodas: a classic account of travel in hong kong, macao, shanghai, hubei, hunan and guizhou (exploring asia, 1, band 1) (3 Ergebnisse)

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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 .

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.…