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Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year, 1878/1879

By Constance Gordon-Cumming, Paul French (Introduction)
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By Constance Gordon-Cumming, Paul French (Introduction)
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Inveterate Victorian traveler and prolific artist Constance Gordon-Cumming roamed far and wide: from the Scottish Highlands to the American West, from the islands of Hawaii to southern China. Even among her many adventures Gordon-Cumming's 1878/1879 trip to Hong Kong was momentous. She arrived just before Christmas 1878 to inadvertently witness the terrible "Great Fire" of Hong Kong that swept devastatingly through the Central and Mid-Levels districts. She then moved on to explorations of t...

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