岭南纪行


此《Ling-Nam:Interior Views of Southern China》(岭南纪行)由美国传教士Benjamin Couch Henry(香便文)著。全书共二十七章,前半部分介绍广东地区的民俗和人文风情,后半部分关于海南岛的旅行考察报告。此英文本出版于1886年,书内包含数十幅插画及地图。

1882年,香便文从广州来到海南,在美籍丹麦人传教士冶基善(Carl C. Jeremiassen,1847-1901)陪同下作了黎区之行。这次旅行的过程记录在香便文1886年出版的《岭南纪行》(Ling-Nam:Interior Views of Southern China)一书中,一名《华南及海南腹地闻见记》。

大致目录(英文)

CHAPTER I:THE ENTRANCE TO CANTON
CHAPTER II:THE CITY OF RAMS
CHAPTER III:THROUGH THE DELTA
CHAPTER IV:AMONG THE PALMS
CHAPTER V:TENG-OO AND THE MABB LE CATES
CHAPTER VI:THE BAMBOO RIVER
CHAPTER VII:ALONG THE NORTH RIVER
CHAPTER VIII:THE GORGES OF THE LIEN-CHOW RIVER
CHAPTEE IX:LIEN-CHOW AND THE IU PEOPLE
CHAPTER X:AT THE HEADWATERS
CHAPTER XI:NAM-WA MONASTERY AND THE SIXTH PATRIARCH
CHAPTEE XII:TAN-HA, OR THE RED CLOUD MOUNTAIN
CHAPTEE XIII:THE STONE PORTAL AND THE FALLING BROOK
CHAPTEE XIV:AMONG THE HILLS IN CENTRAL CANTON
CHAPTER XV:FROM THE WHITE CLOUD HILLS TO THE DRAGON GATE
CHAPTER XVI:THE LOH-FOW MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER XVII:HAINAN, OB, THE ISLAND OF PALMS
CHAPTER XVIII:OV£B THE BOLLING PLAINS OF LAM-KO
CHAPTER XIX:ENTERING THE INTERIOR HILL COUNTRY
CHAPTER XX:THE ABORIGINES OF HAINAN
CHAPTER XXI:INTO UNKNOWN REGIONS
CHAPTER XXII:OUR RECEPTION BY THE LES
CHAPTER XXIII:IN THE HOMES OE THE ABORIGINES
CHAPTER XXIV:IN THE HEART OF THE ISLAND
CHAPTER XXV:THE VALLEYS AND STREAMS OF THE LE MOTHER RIDGE
CHAPTER XXVI:THE RETURN TO HOI-HOW
CHAPTER XXVII:GENERAL VIEW OE THE ISLAND

此书英文全名:LING -NAM OR INTERIOR VIEWS OF SOUTHERN CHINA INCLUDING EXPLORATIONS IN THE HITHERTO UNTRAVERSED ISLAND OF HAINAN

书内包含数十幅:插画及地图

香便文(Benjamin Couch Henry,1850-1901)美国北长老会(American Presbyterian Mission, North)传教士。1873年来广州传教,1888年与哈珀(Andrew P. Happer, 1818-1894)一同创办了私立广州岭南大学的前身格致书院(Christian College in China),校址设在广州城内。1903年,格致书院改名Canton Christian College,中文校名亦改为岭南学堂,他任岭南学堂第二任监督。是广州岭南大学最早的倡办人。研究中国植物,在华南旅行时搜集各种花草。


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