The Face of Manchuria, Korea and Russian Turkestan

First Edition. Publisher's green cloth with figure of Chinese man blind stamped to front, black title lettering to front repeated in gilt at spine. and spine; pp. xv + 248 + [1]; 24 plates, some in colour, after drawings by the author, including the frontispiece (with tissue-guard), and two figures in text. Folding coloured map ('Central Asia'). A few marks to covers and tips of corners bumped. A VG+ copy, map in excellent condition. A journey taken some year after the Boxer Rebellion whilst the political powers negotiated trade with the Chinese government. Emily Georgiana Kemp (1860–1939) was a British adventurer, artist and writer from a wealthy Baptist industrialist family, and one of the first students to at Somerville College, Oxford. She travelled widely in China, Korea, India, Central Asia and the Amazon, during which time she sketched and write about women's education, welfare, and their role in religion. She was friendly with the theologian Marcus Dods and fellow explorer Francis Younghusband.