ZHAJC4 Zhang Yuanhang & Kyle, G. A. ed: JUEBAN CHANGJIANG: 1910 NIANDAI DE TIELU YINGZAO YU YANTU FENGWU. The Vanished Yangtze River: During the Construction of a Railway in 1910s. 絕版長江 : 1910 年代的鐵路營造與沿途風物 。 張遠航 編. Guilin, 2007. 149 pp. B/w plates throughout. 24x26 cm. Wrappers. GBP 40.00 Reproduces photographs taken by an American engineer in China, G. A. Kyle, who worked on the construction of a railway from Xinyang to Chengdu. The photographs show life along the route of the railway together with photographs of the Yangtze River and the Gorges taken by Kyle, presumably on recreational trips. Interesting black-and-white photography of a then remote part of the world. In Chinese. Hard to obtain. Subjects: Yangtze Item 680 in List 213. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?z/ZHAJC4.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |