Author: NEUFELD, CHARLES; EDMONDS, ALFRED; RUSSELL, KITTY; KNOWLES, REV. JOSHUA; BARCLAY, H.V.; FITZGERALD, W.G.; PERKINS, H.; ET AL
Title: The Wide World Magazine - an Illustrated Monthly, October (Oct. ) 1899, Vol. 3, No. 18 - My Impressions of Pekin (Beijing / Peking)
Description: London: George Newnes, Limited, 1899. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Staniland,k C.J.; Pearse, A.; Symons, W. Christian. Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - An Illustrated Monthly, October (Oct.) 1899, Vol. 3, No. 18 - In the Khalifa's Clutches / My Impressions of Pekin (Beijing) / The Great Grottos of Han Mcann Find In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; I. Good .

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