Descrizione

2 vols, cloth, volumes. Volume 1: Maps 1 folding, many text illustrations, 14 full page illustrations, xxx + 420pp. Volume II: Folding map, many text illustrations, 12 full page illustrations, xvi + 408pp, appendix, index. Endpapers browned, some light occasional spotting and light even browning, lower endpaper volume I torn with a little loss along the lower edge. A good set in cloth. Archibald R. Colquhoun (1848 - 1914) was a great traveller who later in his career became the First Administrator of Southern Rhodesia. It was for his exploratory work in Southern China, Burma and Indo-China described in this book that he was awarded the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1884. Chryse as mentioned in the title of this book was a former name for Indo-China and Southern China and it is Colquhoun's travels in the area (the Chinese southern provinces of Guandong, Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces, Laos, northern Thailand and Burma),