Author: HAMILTON, ANGUS:
Title: Korea. London, W. Heinemann, 1904.
Description: . Pp. xli, 315. With one large folding coloured map and many illustrations in the text. Original red cloth, with gilt vignette on upper cover, spine faded, small stain to upper right corner, light wear to extremities, inner front hinge loosening. "Presentation copy" blind-stamped on title. Bookplate and ownership stamp of Staffan Rosén. Second edition, first published in the same year. Angus Hamilton, British journalist who spent some months in Korea as the Far East correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. This is a comprehensive account of Korea at that time. Contains much information on education, government, judiciary, foreign operations, agriculture, industries, trade and the treaty ports, etc. Cordier BS 2986. Taehôn Pak, "Western Books on Korea", page 456.

Keywords: East Asia, korea, corea, korean, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,


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