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IN THE LAND OF PAGODAS: A CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF TRAVEL IN HONG KONG, MACAO, SHANGHAI, HUBEI, HUNAN AND GUIZHOU
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2017 |
| By: |
Alfred Raquez, William L. Gibson, Paul Bruthiaux |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£77.00 |
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£74.69 |
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£2.31 |
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| ISBN 10: |
8776942015 |
| ISBN 13: |
9788776942014 |
| Availability: |
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| Publisher: |
NIAS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 February, 2017 |
| Series: |
Exploring Asia 1 |
| Pages: |
500 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
In short order, Alfred Raquez sets off on a rollicking voyage into the heart of the lawless Miao-country, pen and camera in hand. Raquez's amazing story is continued in his second book, on his Laotian travels, again translated and edited by Bruthiaux and Gibson, and planned for publication by NIAS Press in 2017. |
| Synopsis: |
China, 1898: a time of war, intrigue and growing foreign power. Onto the scene comes a Parisian fugitive with a gifted pen and a journalist's eye. Alfred Raquez drifts from Indochina to Hong Kong, Macao and Canton before falling in with a group of shady entrepreneurs in Shanghai with interests far up the Yuan River. In short order, Raquez sets off on a rollicking voyage into the heart of the lawless Miao-country, pen and camera in hand. The result is a richly recorded adventure told from the perspective of a wandering French boulevardier. In the Land of Pagodas takes readers on a picaresque journey that is as much "Moulin Rouge" as it is "Heart of Darkness", and in its narration reveals much about the derring-do and startling hypocrisy of the colonial enterprise. |
| Illustrations: |
1 map, 56 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
Denmark |
| Imprint: |
NIAS Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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