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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 March 2012
      31 October 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511707834
      9781108010795
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511707834
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 618 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    H. R. Davies (1865–1950) was an English army officer and member of the British intelligence service. Between 1894 and 1900 he was asked by the British government to lead survey expeditions into the modern Chinese province of Yunnan to discover possible routes for a railway connecting British-occupied Burma with the upper Yangtze river and through to Sichuan. This book contains an account of his travels though Yunnan province, written as a travelogue and first published in 1909. The region had been little explored by westerners before Davies' expeditions, and this is the first detailed description of Yunnan from a European traveller. The society, diverse indigenous cultures, geography, economy and political situation of the province are described in detail, with an introductory three chapters on the political context of the expeditions, and on railway construction in south-east Asia in the late nineteenth century.

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