Shanghai Sparrow
Title | Shanghai Sparrow PDF eBook |
Author | Gaie Sebold |
Publisher | Solaris |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2014-04-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1849976686 |
ONE GIRL AGAINST AN EMPIRE Eveline Duchen is a thief and con-artist, surviving day by day on the streets of London, where the glittering spires of progress rise on the straining backs of the poor and disenfranchised. Where the Folk, the otherworldly children of fairy tales and legends, have all but withdrawn from the smoke of the furnaces and the clamour of iron. Caught in an act of deception by the implacable Mr Holmforth, Evvie is offered a stark choice: transportation to the colonies, or an education – and utter commitment to Her Majesty’s Service – at Miss Cairngrim’s harsh school for female spies. But on the decadent streets of Shanghai, where the corruption of the Empire is laid bare, Holmforth is about to make a devil’s bargain, and Eveline’s choices could change the future of two worlds...
Shanghai Birds
Title | Shanghai Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Sheldon Wilkinson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1929 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
Wild Life in China, Or, Chats on Chinese Birds and Beasts
Title | Wild Life in China, Or, Chats on Chinese Birds and Beasts PDF eBook |
Author | George Lanning |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN |
Catalogue of the Birds of China
Title | Catalogue of the Birds of China PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Swinhoe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 88 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
A Tentative List of Chinese Birds ...
Title | A Tentative List of Chinese Birds ... PDF eBook |
Author | Nathaniel Gist Gee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 406 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
Birds of China
Title | Birds of China PDF eBook |
Author | Liu Yang |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 673 |
Release | 2024-01-16 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0691237522 |
"The avifauna of China include a total of close to 1,500 species, of which 60 are endemic. More than 100 species are globally threatened. This new field guide, published in China by Chinese National Geography, treats all species, illustrating every one using 4,000 individual images. Each species has identification text and a distribution map. It is, in every way, a modern-style field guide and will fill a void for birders within and outside China"--
Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China
Title | Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Wright |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 862 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |