THOMAS COOK & SON. Peking and the Overland Route … Third Edition. Shanghai, [no printer], Thomas Cook & Son, 1917.
8vo. Original cloth, lettered in black; pp. [iv], 181, xxii (illustrated advertisements), three folding maps, illustrations after photographs in the text; contemporary ownership inscription to front fly-leaf; a very good copy.
'To-day the Chinese people are as simple and primitive in their habits and customs as they have been for ages past' (p. iv). Why go there at all?
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