Detailed and comprehensive, this 1905 guide for travellers provides a fascinating insight into Asiatic culture and landscape.

Published posthumously in 1910, this collection of essays provides a fascinating account of the Western experience of nineteenth-century China.

Detailed and fascinating, this 1910 publication was one of the first books on the Yunnan Province to appear in English.

Little's diary of his journey by native boat up the Yangtze River in 1883 was published in London in 1888.

Mount Omi and Beyond is Archibald John Little's account of his travels in the Szechuan province of China. His journey took him from Chongqing to Mount Omi and the Tibetan border. Little professed to add nothing to the records of geographical exploration through his work, but aimed simply to provide a 'picture of China as it exists far removed from Western influence'. Little compares this part of China with Europe in the middle ages in the colourful dress of the people, the absence of technology, and lack of communication with the outside world. He believed that this was a world nearing its...