Travels in China: Containing Descriptions, Observations and Comparisons Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imp

Publisher Marketing: Title: Travels in China: containing descriptions, observations and comparisons made and collected in the course of a short residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-min-yuen, and on a subsequent journey from Pekin to Canton. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Barrow, John; 1805. 422 p.; 8 . 1425.h.22. Contributor Bio:  Barrow, John ABOUT THE AUTHOR Valerie Barrow was a businesswoman for many years before moving with her husband to country New South Wales Australia, to be closer to her grandchildren and nature. She had worked in the Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore region teaching, conducting groups and giving public talks. She has been interviewed on television in Hong Kong and Australia, and on radio in New York, Texas and Australia. The Author is highly regarded for her mediumship and wise counsel. Several visits to India and conversations with Sri Sathya Sai Baba helped her understand she receives information by divine illumination. Since 1982 she has worked with unseen beings that speak with her or overlight her body and speak through her. Her first book The Book of Love is written in diary form while sitting with a sacred Alcheringa Stone. The Stone, wrapped in paperbark, belongs to the Australian Aboriginals who advise it has come from the stars. It is an introduction to the much larger picture depicted in her second book 'Alcheringa' - when the first ancestors were created - that illustrates a non-fiction story about where humans come from where they are going to and what they will become.