After thirty years of reviewing new books, George Hamlin Fitch set out to judge the East with the same eye for what is best. He moves from Japan, the picture country, to American-ruled Manila, Hong Kong, Canton, Singapore and Rangoon, where elephants shift teak logs, then to the temples and palaces of India and the tombs of Egypt, closing with hints for travellers.
An urbane American traveller’s view of Asia and Egypt early in the twentieth century, with the colonial assumptions of its day. Download the free EPUB.