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Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RECOLLECTIONS
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Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring
Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
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Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring
Excerpt from Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring: With a Brief Memoir While arranging the papers of the late Sir John Bowring, I discovered a great number of autobiographical notes and recollections in his handwriting, which he had apparently intended some day to put into a connected shape. The majority of these fragments were composed about the year 1861, after his return from the East, but many were written when he was in China, while others again, relating to incidents in his earlier life, and to persons with whom he was then brought into contact, were recorded at the time. Unfortunately, these reminiscences were never collated nor revised by the writer, neither did he leav...
