Troubled by the way Russia and Japan were tightening their grip on China’s borderlands after the Boxer crisis, the painter and traveller Emily Kemp went to see for herself. She journeys through Manchuria by Moukden and Liao Yang to the Thousand Peaks, crosses into Korea at Pyöng Yang, and then travels through Russian Turkestan, describing missions, temples, mountains and people.
A perceptive woman traveller’s view of East and Central Asia on the eve of great upheavals. Download the free EPUB.