An Australian in China: Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma

by George Ernest Morrison

Book Overview

In 1894, a 32-year-old Australian doctor named George Morrison donned Chinese robes, attached a false queue to the inside of his cap, and set off on an epic journey from Shanghai to Burma. Up the Yangtze, over stony paths across the wilds of Sichuan and Yunnan, through the Shan states to the frontier of British India, Morrison's trek was an extraordinary achievement, and the book he wrote about it, An Australian in China, is a travel classic. Written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9881762189
• ISBN13: 9789881762184
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.2"