Built from conversations over her own photographs, this short book sets Isabella Bird’s pictures of China beside her comments. Gates of Peking, the British Legation, mule carts, the great stone road to Chengdu, farms, temples, burial customs and street life all appear, with a plea against the press view of the Chinese as cruel barbarians.
A small, humane picture book by the most intrepid of Victorian women travellers. Download the free EPUB.