China -- Description and travel
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- China -- Description and travel -- To 1900
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A Pocket Guide to China (1943), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division- China (a Burton Holmes Travel Stories volume; Chicago: Wheeler Pub. Co., 1937), by Eunice Tietjens and Louise Strong Hammond, illust. by Burton Holmes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Beyond the Bund (New York: Payson and Clarke, c1927), by Philip Kerby (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Broken Journey: Wanderings From the Hoang-Ho to the Island of Saghalien and the Upper Reaches of the Amur River (London: T. W. Laurie Ltd., ca.1919), by Mary Gaunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews
- Camps and Trails in China: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China (unillustrated; 1918), by Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews (Gutenberg text)
- Cathay and the Way Thither, ed. by Henry Yule (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)
- China, the Long-Lived Empire (New York: The Century Co., 1900), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- China Through the Stereoscope: A Journey Through the Dragon Empire at the Time of the Boxer Uprising (c1901), by James Ricalton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Fourteen Months in Canton (London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Mrs. John Henry Gray
- Houseboat Days in China, by J. O. P. Bland (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
- Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, & 1833, With Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands, by Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (PDF files in Singapore)
- A Journey Through the Chinese Empire (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by Evariste Régis Huc (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Land of the Boxers: or, China under the Allies (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903), by Gordon Casserly (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Letters From China and Japan (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1920), by John Dewey and Alice Chipman Dewey, ed. by Evelyn Dewey (Gutenberg text)
- A Naturalist in Western China with Vasculum, Camera, and Gun: Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom (2 volumes; New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1913), by Ernest Henry Wilson, contrib. by Charles Sprague Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old China and Young America (Chicago: F. G. Browne and Co., 1913), by Sarah Pike Conger
- Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China (2 volumes; London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, n.d.), by Evariste Régis Huc, trans. by William Hazlitt
- Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China During the Years 1844-5-6 (2 volumes in 1; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1900), by Evariste Régis Huc, trans. by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Wanderings in China (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by C. F. Gordon Cumming
- A Woman in China (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca.1914), by Mary Gaunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: J. Murray, 1900), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Year in China; and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, When Homeward Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1864), by Martha Noyes Williams, contrib. by William Cullen Bryant (page images at Google)
- China's Millions (New York: Coward-McCann, 1928), by Anna Louise Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Story of China (c1922), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- The Chinese Empire: A Sequel to "Recollections of a Journey Through Tartary and Thibet" (new edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), by Evariste Régis Huc (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Isabella L. Bird (Gutenberg text)
- The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Isabella L. Bird (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864), by Mrs. Elizabeth Muter (page images at HathiTrust)
- On a Chinese Screen (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by W. Somerset Maugham
- New York to Peking (San Francisco: Privately printed, 1921), by Blanche Sellers Ortman
- A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1910), by Mrs. Hugh Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
- China Bound: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC (1987 edition), by Karen Turner-Gottschang and Linda A. Reed (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, by John Rogers Haddad (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)
- Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor, and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860), by Thomas Witlam Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Swatow to Canton (London: Trubner and Co.; Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1877), by Herbert Allen Giles
- Fourteen Months in Canton (London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Mrs. John Henry Gray
- In and Round Yunnan Fou (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Gabrielle von Hoenstadt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Face of Manchuria, Korea, and Russian Turkestan (New York: Duffield, 1911), by E. G. Kemp (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (web edition, 2016), by Andrew Huang (PDF with commentary at bunniestudios.com)
- An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1910), by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- In the Forbidden Land: An Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment, Torture, and Ultimate Release (new edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1899), by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Sport and Travel in Both Tibets (London: Blades, East and Blades, c1909), by Lady Minna Jenkins (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Three Years in Tibet: With the Original Japanese Illustrations (1909), by Ekai Kawaguchi (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travel and Adventure in Tibet: Including the Diary of Miss Annie R. Taylor's Remarkable Journey from Tau-Chau to Ta-Chien-Lu Through the Heart of the Forbidden Land (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902), by William Carey and Annie R. Taylor
- With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey Into the Far Interior (5th edition; Cincinnati: Foreign Christian Missionary Society, c1901), by Susie Carson Rijnhart (multiple formats at archive.org)
- With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior (third edition; Chicago et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1901), by Susie Carson Rijnhart (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Among the Tibetans, by Isabella L. Bird (Gutenberg text)
- Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet, by W. H. Knight (Gutenberg text)
- Letters from India, Describing a Journey in the British Dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere During the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831 (2 volumes; London: E. Churton, 1834), by Victor Jacquemont (page images at HathiTrust)
- À Travers l'Asie (in French; Brussels: Polleunis et Ceuterick, 1894), by Constant de Deken, contrib. by Jules Joseph Leclercq, illust. by Henri d' Orléans (page images at HathiTrust)
- À Travers l'Asie (in French; Anvers: C. Thibaut, 1902), by Constant de Deken, illust. by Henri d' Orléans
- The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ (1890), by Nicolas Notovitch, trans. by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries (second edition; London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893), by E. F. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shambhala, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
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