Through China With a Camera (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)John Thomson
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1330036328
ISBN-139781330036327
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Had the great Venetian traveller, Marco Polo, been able to confirm by a series of photographs his account of the wonders of Cathay, his fair fame would have escaped the discredit cast upon it for centuries, and indeed until comparatively recent investigation confirmed his story.
Since the time when I made my first journey into Cambodia to examine its ancient cities, it has been my constant endeavour to show how the explorer may add not only to the interest, but to the permanent value of his work by the use of photography.
The camera has always been the companion of my travels, and has supplied the only accurate means of portraying objects of interest along my route, and the races with which I came in contact. Thus it came about that 1 have been able to furnish readers of my books with incontestable pictorial evidence of my bona fides and to share with them the pleasure experienced in coming face to face for the first time with the scenes and the people of far-off lands.
Some parts of this volume have been published in a more costly form. In the present instance the photographs have been reproduced and transformed into printing blocks by a most effective half-tone process, so that nothing in the original plates is lost. The letterpress has been carefully revised and brought up to «late and in part rewritten. I have kept myself an contrant with the course of events in "Further Asia." Hut in China and in Chinese institutions there is no well-defined change to place on record. Western civilisation with its, aggressive activities appeals to be opposed to the genius of the people, who fain would be left alone to follow their time-worn methods, social and political.
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Had the great Venetian traveller, Marco Polo, been able to confirm by a series of photographs his account of the wonders of Cathay, his fair fame would have escaped the discredit cast upon it for centuries, and indeed until comparatively recent investigation confirmed his story.
Since the time when I made my first journey into Cambodia to examine its ancient cities, it has been my constant endeavour to show how the explorer may add not only to the interest, but to the permanent value of his work by the use of photography.
The camera has always been the companion of my travels, and has supplied the only accurate means of portraying objects of interest along my route, and the races with which I came in contact. Thus it came about that 1 have been able to furnish readers of my books with incontestable pictorial evidence of my bona fides and to share with them the pleasure experienced in coming face to face for the first time with the scenes and the people of far-off lands.
Some parts of this volume have been published in a more costly form. In the present instance the photographs have been reproduced and transformed into printing blocks by a most effective half-tone process, so that nothing in the original plates is lost. The letterpress has been carefully revised and brought up to «late and in part rewritten. I have kept myself an contrant with the course of events in "Further Asia." Hut in China and in Chinese institutions there is no well-defined change to place on record. Western civilisation with its, aggressive activities appeals to be opposed to the genius of the people, who fain would be left alone to follow their time-worn methods, social and political.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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