1st Edition
The Boy Travellers in the Far East (5-vol. set) (ES)
- A facsimile reprint of all five books in The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey (1879–84) series consisting of Japan and China (1879), Siam and Java (1880), Ceylon and India (1881), Egypt and the Holy Land (1882), and Africa (1883), all written by Thomas W. Knox (1835–96).
- The series, published during ‘the golden age of American children’s literature’ was very successful when published and remained popular among juvenile readers until the early twentieth century.
- Written in the rollicking style of adventure stories, the books follow two youths on journeys to Asia, Middle East, and Africa. The author strived to give his readers accurate and fascinating information. He made us of—and refers to—the finest research materials on the history and culture of foreign countries.
- With its many vivid illustrations (some in colour), the series gave a strong impression on his American young readers of the ‘exotic’ Far East.
- This reprint collection is a set of excellent cultural and historical documents about how children of nineteenth-century America imagined foreign lands. For those working in contemporary Cultural Studies, this series offers many suggestions for further research and provides lively working materials for students of the period.
cONTENTS (Sample articles from the 1890 issues)
A Dictionary of Japanese Law Terms
A Much-married Man
Affairs in Korea
Amalgamation of Political Parties
Asiatic Society of Japan
Changes in Local Government
Count Itagaki’s Political Influence
Cruelty to Animals in Japan
Education in 1889
Inauguration of the Leper Hospital at Koyama
Japan Becoming Famous
Japan in Their Dealings with Foreigners
Japanese Emigration to Hawaii
Japanese Foreign Trade in 1889
Kano Hogai
M. Boissonade’s Reply to the Objectors
Maruyama Okyo
Messrs. Shibusawa and Iwasaki
Missions in Japan
Mr. Lowder and Treaty Revision
Mr. Osaki Yukio and the New Cabinet
Mr. Sonoda Kokichi on British Trade
New Edition of "The Light of Asia"
Nippon Onagaku Kwai
Postal Saving Banks in Japan
Professor E. Fenollossa
Professor Toyama on Current Educational Methods
Proposed Honours to the Pioneers of Western Learning
Pugilistic Females
Railways in Japan
Red Cross Society of Japan
Religious Government in Japan
Reminiscences of a Japanese Art Studio of Former Days
Rice
Silk in 1889
Sir Edwin Arnold and the Satsuma Rebellion
Subsidy to Tea Exporters
The "Aikoku-koto" Party
The "Kirin" Beer at the Industrial Exhibition
The "Kokumin-no-Tomo"
The 11th National Bank and the Mitsubishi
The Bank of Japan and the Present Financial Depression
The Bible of the Church
The Complete Bible in Japanese
The Famine Relief Funds
The Influenza Epidemic
The Japanese in California
The Japanese in Korea
The Koto Chiu Gakko Affair
The Meiji Art Association
The Nationalistic Movement in Japan
The New Journalism
The Other Side of the Treaty Negotiations with Japan
The Photograph Family
The Photographic Society of Japan
The Progress of Science during the Past Twenty Years
The Question of Prostitution
The Riukiu Islands
The Seismological Society of Japan
The Stock Market
The Tendency of Japanese Christianity
The Third National Exhibition
The Yokosuka Outrage
The Yotsuya Ghost
Watanabe Kazan
Yokohama Literary Society etc.
