Opis: A Voyage to China (Classic Reprint) - White John

Excerpt from A Voyage to China

This volume was not originally intended for publication, but written as a Memoir to be deposited in the archives of the "East India Marine Society of Salem." Some of the author's friends, however, who had read the manuscript, (among whom was the Hon. John Pickering, who kindly assisted him with advice) conceived it of sufficient general interest to be published, and it is accordingly submitted, "with all its imperfections upon its head."

In regard to style, grammatical accuracy, and mode of arrangement, he requests his readers to bear in mind, that this is not a book written by a professed scholar, but the production of an unlettered seaman. In the course of the work, he has endeavoured to account for the discrepancy between his own humble though faithful narrative and descriptions, and the vague and disjointed accounts of some former writers, by which the Cochin Chinese character is so differently represented.

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Szczegóły: A Voyage to China (Classic Reprint) - White John

Nazwa: A Voyage to China (Classic Reprint)
Autor: White John
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330184196
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 388
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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