Opening with the Dutch sailor Hendrick Hamel, wrecked on the Korean coast in the seventeenth century, Louise Jordan Miln introduces Western readers to a kingdom still little known in the 1890s. She writes of Korean homes, dress, children and family life, the lot of women, entertainers and the flower-boats, religion and the country’s history.
A curious and readable early Western account of Korea, written with the confident judgements of its era. Download the free EPUB.