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With a prefatory note of F.W. Maze, Inspector General of Customs. Nur der Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren ( Die gelben Deckel leicht fleckig). Sonst SEHR gutes Exemplar. - A study of the Yangtze craft, complete with carefully detailed scale drawings, the result of the author`s research and experience during his career as a river inspector in China. .- G.R.G Worcester (1890 -1969) termed himself a sailor by profession. Born in England in 1890, he entered the Royal Navy in the days of sail and rounded the Horn as a midshipman. Although he turned his back on salt water in 1919, the balance of his professional life was spent within sight and sound of water of some sort. He left the Navy to join the Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and during his thirty years as River Inspector he assisted in surveying, marking, and opening the Yangtze to steam navigation to a point 1,450 miles from the sea. In his wanderings up and down the coast and rivers of China, he developed a deep interest in, and affection for, the junkmen and their craft. Originalbroschur. 29 cm 94 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen dokumentarischen Abbildungen, teils in Farbe First edition.

Nur der Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren ( Die gelben Deckel leicht fleckig). Sonst SEHR gutes Exemplar. - A study of the Yangtze craft, complete with carefully detailed scale drawings, the result of the author`s research and experience during his career as a river inspector in China. .- G.R.G Worcester (1890 -1969) termed himself a sailor by profession. Born in England in 1890, he entered the Royal Navy in the days of sail and rounded the Horn as a midshipman. Although he turned his back on salt water in 1919, the balance of his professional life was spent within sight and sound of water of some sort. He left the Navy to join the Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and during his thirty years as River Inspector he assisted in surveying, marking, and opening the Yangtze to steam navigation to a point 1,450 miles from the sea. In his wanderings up and down the coast and rivers of China, he developed a deep interest in, and affection for, the junkmen and their craft.

[SW: Junk, chinesische Dschunke, Sampan, Geschichte, Bau China Schiffahrt]
Junk, chinesische, Dschunke, Sampan, Geschichte, China, Schiffahrt

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