Mrs Archibald Little: 2 books
by Mrs. Archibald Little
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
INTIMATE CHINA
The Chinese as I have seen them.
PRELUDE. FIRST IMPRESSIONS. PAGE Arriving in Shanghai.—My First Tea-season.—Inside a Chinese City.—Shanghai Gardens.—In the Romantic East at last! 1 CHAPTER I. ON THE UPPER YANGTSE....
by Mrs. Archibald Little
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
It was in the merry month of May, 1887, that I first landed in China; but from the first there was nothing merry about China. It felt bitterly cold, after passing through the tropics; and in Shanghai one shivered in a warm wrap, as the wind blew direct from the North Pole straight at one's chest, till...