Dorothy Dix

An interesting travelogue of its time (1919-20). This was a trip just after the Great War and she started by flying across the USA to San Francisco. She visited Hawaii, Japan, Korea (under Japanese control at that time), Manchuria (also under Japanese control), Peking, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore, Java, Burma, Culcutta, Ceylon, before shipping back to Boston non-stop via the Suez Canal and a coaling stop near Aden. 16 B&W photos. She visited the Taj Mahal arriving on a moonlit evening and wandered all around it. I suspect that is something that wouldn't happen today. There was a lot of travel by carts, rickshaws and elephants as well as by automobiles. It seems strange to me but the flight across the USA and the trip back from Colombo in Ceylon are barely mentioned in passing. The book really concentrates on her experiences in Asia. Experiences that I suspect would no longer happen in a more westernised world.… (mehr)