The Boy Travellers in the Far East [Part First]: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and ChinaKnox, Thomas Wallace
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East [Part First]: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China
Knox, Thomas Wallace
China -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature; Japan -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
The author is not aware that any book describing China and Japan, and
specially addressed to the young, has yet appeared. Consequently he is
led to hope that his work will find a welcome among the boys and girls
of America. And when the juvenile members of the family have completed
its perusal, the children of a larger growth may possibly find the
volume not without interest, and may glean from its pages some grains of
information hitherto unknown to them.
T. W. K.
NEW YORK, _October_, 1879.
CONTENTS.
* * * * *
CHAPTER I. PAGE
THE DEPARTURE. 17
CHAPTER II.
OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA. 30
CHAPTER III.
ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 48
CHAPTER IV.
INCIDENTS OF A WHALING VOYAGE. 58
CHAPTER V.
ARRIVAL IN JAPAN. 72
CHAPTER VI.
FIRST DAY IN JAPAN. 83
CHAPTER VII.
FROM YOKOHAMA TO TOKIO. 101
CHAPTER VIII.
SIGHTS IN THE EASTERN CAPITAL OF JAPAN. 115
CHAPTER IX.
ASAKUSA AND YUYENO.--FIRST NATIONAL FAIR AT TOKIO. 131
CHAPTER X.
WALKS AND TALKS IN TOKIO. 144
CHAPTER XI.
AN EXCURSION TO DAI-BOOTS AND ENOSHIMA. 156
CHAPTER XII.
SIGHTS AT ENOSHIMA. 169
CHAPTER XIII.
ON THE ROAD TO FUSIYAMA. 183
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ASCENT OF FUSIYAMA. 197
CHAPTER XV.
EXECUTIONS AND HARI-KARI. 215
CHAPTER XVI.
AMUSEMENTS.--WRESTLERS AND THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS. 227
CHAPTER XVII.
A STUDY OF JAPANESE ART. 239
CHAPTER XVIII.
SOMETHING ABOUT JAPANESE WOMEN. 254
CHAPTER XIX.
FROM YOKOHAMA TO KOBE AND OSAKA. 266
CHAPTER XX.
THE MINT AT OSAKA.--FROM OSAKA TO NARA AND KIOTO. 279
CHAPTER XXI.
KIOTO AND LAKE BIWA. 291
CHAPTER XXII.
THE INLAND SEA AND NAGASAKI.--CAUGHT IN A TYPHOON. 303
CHAPTER XXIII.
FIRST DAY IN CHINA. 318
CHAPTER XXIV.
A VOYAGE UP THE YANG-TSE-KIANG. 328
CHAPTER XXV.
THE TAE-PING REBELLION.--SCENES ON THE GREAT RIVER. 339
CHAPTER XXVI.
FROM SHANGHAI TO PEKIN. 352
CHAPTER XXVII.
SIGHTS IN PEKIN. 365
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