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Another Passage to Adventure featuring the great Swede Sven Hedin. In this Part 2 of his travels through Asia, we're picking up in Kashgar, right as Sven is gearing up for his trek through the Taklamakan Desert from Market to the Khotan Daria
We leave Robert Fortune's gripes, discoveries and adventures behind for now and start anew with someone else of antiquarian interest. Sven Hedin (1865-1952) was a Stockholm-born adventurer, explorer, cartographer, scientist and author. His ad
It's been all Robert Fortune since we launched the China Vintage Hour way back when. I'm anxious to move on to some other great stuff. So let's finish off Robert Fortune's travels in China for a while. We can always come back to hear more of
Before we leave Mr. Robert Fortune behind, there are still one or two more episodes worth of gems to include in these vintage passages from 1840's-1850's. In today's story he's off and running...making his way through Zhejiang province, on his
In this episode we're going to finish off with some excerpts from Fortune's first book. This first effort by RF, "Wanderings Through the Northern Provinces of China" garnered him a lot of shine and attention. About midway into this episode we'l
In this excerpt from Robert Fortunes first best-selling book we hear about his first encounter with tea in China, the thing for which he is best remembered. Up until this point, very little was known in the West about how China turned raw leav
RF really lets it all hang out in this episode with his thoughts and opinions about Buddhism, the local Chinese and the future prospects of Christianity in China. You can really tell from this episode, China wasn't the safest place for Western
Laszlo continues on with more of Robert Fortune's romps through Zhoushan, Shanghai and Zhejiang Province during his 1843-1846 visit to China on behalf of the London (later Royal) Horticultural Society. The new treaty ports have hardly been ope
Welcome to the inaugural episode of the China Vintage Hour. Robert Fortune’s adventures were covered previously in the China History Podcast’s 10-Part History of Tea Series. In this episode today we read excerpts from Fortune’s first book wri
Teacup Media is proud to launch a new show featuring material taken from antiquarian travel literature from the 18th and 19th centuries. Join Laszlo Montgomery each episode with interesting and often amusing observations made by Western travel
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