Jehol City of Emperors by Sven Hedin 1st British Ed 1932 Vintage Hardcover Book

Description: Please be sure to have a look at photos and condition description before deciding to buy. This is a used book with some wear and tear, which we've tried to thoroughly catalog. If there are any questions we've failed to answer here, please feel free to reach out to us. For speediest delivery, please select expedited shipping at checkout! Featured here is the title, Jehol City of Emperors, by Sven Hedin, translated from Swedish by E. G. Nash. Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. LTD. London: 1932; unstated first British edition with no stated print runs or further editions. 278 pages. Illustrated. Printed in Great Britain. Jehol City [today Chengde] was the summer residence of the great Manchu emperors. Book excerpt – foreword: This book would never have been written had not my countryman Mr. Vincent Bendix of Chicago expressed a wish to have a Lama temple — either an original or a replica — erected in Stockholm, and another in Chicago providing me most generously with the funds necessary for such an enterprise. Jehol, the summer residence of the great Manchu Emperors, seemed preeminently the place for the study of such Lama temples. To pull down and remove one of these pearls of Chinese architecture would have been a piece of vandalism unworthy of westerners, and indeed the Chinese authorities would not have allowed such an act of sacrilege; so we decided to begin by making a replica of the stately Golden Pavilion in Potala for Chicago, while work on the second replica for Stockholm could wait for a while. . . . About the author: Sven Hedin (1865 - 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator. Lamaism ***** Thanks for visiting, and have a beautiful day! shelf-22

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