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The Adventures of a Chinaman in China. From the French of Jules Verne.
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Translation of Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine (1879), originally published in America as The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China and reissued here, in 1889, as the second illustrated American edition under the title The Adventures of a Chinaman in China. Jules Verne’s novel follows Kin-Fo, a wealthy Chinese man whose boredom leads him to arrange his own death, only to find meaning through perilous travels and misadventure across China.
Description: The Adventures of a Chinaman in China. From the French of Jules Verne.
Boston: Lee and Shepard publishers [and:] New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1889. Small octavo. pp. vi, 271, [8, adverts]. With fifty illustrations. Bound in original publisher’s pale green pictorial cloth; general soil and light wear to binding. Overall, a very good copy.
[3736052]Price: $250.00