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    Reference 3529 (1818)
    Category Other travel
    Author HEDIN, Sven (translated by E G Nash)
    Title Jehol - City of Emperors
    Publishing Information London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1932
    Description 1st UK Edition: xiv [1] 278 pages, illusrated, b/w photos, line drawings. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, some minor spotting, mainly to page edges, contents clean, discrete booksellers stamp verso rear cover. "Translated from the Swedish by E.G. Nash." Sven Hedin was a Swedish explorer who devoted a number of years to exploring Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. "Jehol, the City of emperors, is truly a dead city. The founders of the Manchu Dynasty, K'ang Hai and Ch'ien Lung, created it as a place for hunting, military exercises, and that religious devotion which they knew so well how to combine with a certain Machiavellianism in mundane affairs. Now, its glories have almost departed and it is doomed to complete ruin in the space of a few years." Chapters include: The road to Jehol; The Potala; The flight of the Torgot; The Hsien-Kung temple-monastry; Some other temples in Jehol; The visit of the Tashi Lama to Jehol; K'ang-Hsi, the founder of the Summer Palace in Jehol; Ch'ien-Lung's court at the Summer Palace; Lord Macartney's embassy; Hsiang Fei, the concubine of an emperor; Ho Shen, an emperor's favourite; Chia-Ch'ing's death in Jehol; Hsien-Feng's death in Jehol.
    Price £50.00
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