The great wall of China

1. Verfasser: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 393 p. : front., illus., plates (1 col.) ports., maps ; 24 cm.
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245 1 4 |a The great wall of China /  |c by William Edgar Geil ... with one hundred full-page illustrations and maps. 
260 |a New York :  |b Sturgis & Walton Company,  |c 1909. 
300 |a xvi, 393 p. :  |b front., illus., plates (1 col.) ports., maps ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 |a Chinese proverbs at head of every recto. 
505 0 |a Merely preliminary -- The thrilling prospect: From the Golden Gate to the Yellow Sea ; Chin, Van Tromp, Blake, Togo ; Great battles of books and brains ; Progeny of the black art -- The tragedy of Chinwangtao: Ever open harbor ; The Isle of Chin now joined to the mainland ; The cap of the west -- The only first: A brief biography of the first emperor of China ; His wonderful works ; The Great Wall ; Search for root of life ; Invention of the Chinese pen ; Thirty-seven years, reign ; Death -- From the sea to the eastern Y: Chin's design ; Narrative of the first three hundred miles of the journey along the Great Wall ; The lily pool ; White dandelion ; Peace project -- The ancient architectural wave: The idea of the Great Wall, European, Babylonian, or original? ; The seven wonders of the West ; Survey of chief characteristics of the epoch of the Great Wall -- From the thirteen tombs to China's sorrow: The Ming mausolea ; The western tombs ; Wu Tai Shan ; Magic mortar ; Tablets on the Wall ; The picturesque pass ; Wan Li and Lung Ch'ing -- The defense of the Great Wall: Weapons of the gods, etc. ; The loess or river loop, in oldest China, land of legend and of dry fog: The journey from the Yellow River to the Yellow River ; Legends ; Fauna ; Flora ; Black Dog's diary ; The line of the least natural resistance -- The rise of Chin, seven great chancellors: Ballad by Dr. W.A.P. Martin -- Letters from Ninghia: Addressed to a young lady ; No-door life ; Medicine man ; The lone lady of Ninghia -- Genghis Khan, the red raider who passed through the Great Wall at Ninghia: Shed 23,000,000 of human blood -- The desert loop, Kansu: Mountain mule caravan ; Famous moon legend ; Dead land ; Great irrigation scheme ; Important tablet ; List of great walls 
505 0 |a Chin Shih Hwangti, first universal emperor of China, historico-economic study of China's greatest ruler -- The mound of Chin -- The why of the Wall -- The "9 by 3" city, Liangchowfu: Detour of the Great Wall ; A cavern of gold -- Yung Lo, who moved the urns of empire: The grand encyclopedia -- The southern loop of the Great Wall: The white elephant ; The golden table -- China before the Great Wall: Yao, Shun, Yu ; Laotzu, Confucius, Mencius ; Intellectual activity ; The "Confucian religion" -- The three Chins: Ancestral home of the Chins ; Black Dog -- Medieval China, since Chin's Great Wall to the present dynasty -- The Tibetan loop of the Great Wall, fast horse caravan into Tibet: Discovery of 200 miles of Great Wall not on the map ; Sining and the hero of Sining ; Christian missions -- The Chin tablet, "one of the most remarkable relics of antiquity" -- In the panhandle of China, Kanchow: Journey Liangchow to Kanchow ; Cashing a draft in northwest Kansu -- In the panhandle of China: The city of Su ; Su, last large city along the Great Wall ; Legends -- The end of the Great Wall: Western end of the Great Wall. 
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