A German scholar in the East: travel scenes and reflections / by H. Hackmann. Tr. by Daisie Rommel. With 21 illustrations from the author's photographs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hackmann, Heinrich Friedrich, 1864-1935.

Contributor:

Rommel, Daisie, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orient--Description and travel.

Orient.

Draper.

East Asia--Description and travel.

East Asia.

German literature--Translations into English.

German literature.

Genre:

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

xi, 223 pages including frontispiece, 1 unnumbered page including frontispiece : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd.; New York : J. Pott & co., 1914.

Contents:

I. FROM THE WHITE-WALLED CITY

II. TWILIGHT HOURS ON THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY

III. A DRIVE IN A TROIKA

IV. FROM THE WORLD APART

V. THE SEAT OF THE HUTUKTU

VI. CROSSING THE GOBI DESERT IN WINTER

VII. THE SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS SIDE OF THE MONGOLS

VIII. OLD FRIENDS WITH NEW FACES

IX. THE INWARD LIFE

X. SPRINGTIME IN THE HOLY LAND OF CHINA

XI. A RISING METROPOLIS IN THE EAST

XII. IN THE HEART OF CHINA

XIII. THE WUTAISHAN

XIV. SKETCHES BY THE WAY

XV. THOUGHTS BY THE WAYSIDE

XVI. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH

XVII. THE COUNTRY OF THE SUN-GODDESS

XVIII. BENEATH TROPIC SUNS

XIX. SECRETS OF THE JUNGLE

XX. SIAM AND ITS BUDDHISM

XXI. YEAR'S END ON THE GANGES

XXII. NEW YEAR'S DAY IN THE HIMALAYAS

XXIII. AT THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

XXIV. THE DEER PARK

XXV. THE POSITION OF ENGLAND IN INDIA

XXVI. EUROPE AND ASIA.

Notes:

Translation of "Welt des Ostens."

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

OCLC:

2599875