A Yankee on the Yangtze by William Edgar Geil - 1904: Being a Narrative of a Journey from Shanghai through the Central Kingdom to Burma

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 6". Not Stated. The very scarce first UK edition of William Edgar Geil's account of his travels in Asia. The first UK edition of this work from Geil, an American evangelist, explorer, lecturer and photographer. He is believed to be the first American to have travelled the entire length of the Ming section of the Great Wall of China.Illustrated with ninety-nine photographic plates, each featuring a number of images. Collated, lacking the plate which should appear between pages 208 and 209, which featured three images.A fascinating account of the author's travels through Shanghai and Burma, with discussion of the Yangtze Gorges, Chinese interpreters, copper mining, and opium.The scarce first UK edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Discolouration to back strip, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Marks to front joint. Front hinge significantly strained, with front free endpaper and frontispiece tenderly held.… Read More

London: Hodder Stoughton. Very Good. 1906. Hardcover. Blue cloth, b/w plates, firm copy with spine cloth browned, name on endpaper, scattered foxing, some wear ; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches .

1904 UK edition hardcover as pictured. Not a reprint. A classic journal and travelogue documenting a missionary's trip through China complete with the jingoism and racism typical of westerners with dreams of empire. Includes 100 full page illustrations/photographs and a fold out map. Binding is intact. Blue cloth boards with white and deep blue stamping are faded, soiled and worn with some fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Both hinges partially cracked. Writing and Australian missionary sticker on front endpapers. Front and rear endpapers and edge of text block mottled. Text is mottled but appears unmarked aside from a line drawn on the foldout map. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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First Edition. 8vo illus mustard cloth gilt spine lettering, prev owner name, slight scuffing to cover, slight spine fading. ow VG/ndj: 312pp, 99 bw photos that he took himself. Geil, an American evangelist, explorer, lecturer and photographer travelled in 1902 frpm Shanghai up the Yangtze River thru the Gorges to Burma, investigating the state of missionaries soon after the Boxer rebellion of 1900. He said to have been the first American to have travelled the whole length of the Great Wall. He authored several travel books illus by his numerous photos such as A Yankee in Pigmyland 1905, The Great Wall of China 1909, etc.