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Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925 Subjects: China -- Description and travel Yangtze River (China) Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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