Emphasizing the natural spirituality of children and the connections among physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of growth, a guide shows how to stimulate creativity, find a child's educational style, and learn the importance of exploring nature. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Natural Childhood: The First Practical and Holistic Guide for Parents of the Developing Child

Thomson, John

Parenting & Relationships

Fireside

First published in 1875, this is the first part of a volume which also includes travels in China. This volume describes John Thomson's travels in Malaya--from Penang to Singapore--Siam, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Thomson's observations are acute, his style easy, and the whole makes very agreeable and entertaining reading. Balmer focuses the reader's attention on Thomson's role as one of the first photographers of the region; indeed, during his visit to Bangkok he was summoned to the Royal Palace to take the King's portrait and the portraits of other members of the Royal Family.

The Straits of Malacca, Siam and Indo-China: Travels and Adventures of a Nineteenth-century Photographer (Oxford in Asia Hardback Reprints)

History

Asia

Oxford University Press

Excerpt from Illustrations of China and Its People, Vol. 3 of 4: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People RepresentedInce is69, the date at which the previous illustration was taken, the foreign settlement at Shanghai has been steadily improving. No. 8 is a photograph executed in is72, and designed to give some notion of the improvements to which reference has been made. At least two new buildings have been erected within the past four years, one being the Oriental Bank, bisected by the &#64258;agstaff in the picture. The View was taken from behind the gate of the public gardens.No. 9 shows the style of buildings at the southern extremity of the Bund, and the State of the ground fronting them in 1869.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Illustrations of China and Its People, Vol. 3 of 4: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

Illustrations of China and Its People, Vol. 1 of 4: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Illustrations of China and Its People, Vol. 1 of 4: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented Those familiar with the Chinese and their deeply-rooted superstitions will readily understand that the carrying out of my task involved both difficulty and danger. In some places there were many who had never yet set eyes upon a pale-faced stranger; and the literati, or educated classes, had fostered a notion amongst' such as these, that, while evil spirits of every kind were carefully to be shunned, none ought to be so strictly avoided as the Fan Qui or Foreign Devil, who assumed human shape, and appeared solely for the furtherance of his own interests, often owing the success of his undertakings to an ocular power, which enabled him to discover the hidden treasures of heaven and earth. I therefore frequently enjoyed the reputation of being a dangerous geomancer, and my camera was held to be a dark mysterious in strument, which, combined with my naturally, or supernaturally, intensified eyesight gave me power to see through rocks and mountains, to pierce the very souls of the natives, and to produce mira culous pictures by some black art, which at the same time bereft the individual depicted of so much of the principle of life as to render his death a certainty within a very short period of years. Accounted, for these reasons, the forerunner of death, I found portraits of children difficult to obtain, while, strange as it may be thought in a land where filial piety is esteemed the highest of virtues, sons and daughters brought their aged parents to be placed before the foreigner's silent and mysterious instrument of destruction. The tri&#64258;ing sums that I paid for the privilege of taking such subjects would probably go to help in the purchase of a coffin, which, conveyed ceremoniously to the old man's house, would there be deposited to await the hour of dissolution, and the body of the parent whom his son had honoured with the gift. Let none of my readers suppose that I am speaking in jest. To such an extreme pitch has the notion of honouring ancestors with due mortuary rites been carried in China, that an affectionate parent would regard children who should present him with a cool and comfortable coffin as having begun in good time to display the duty and respect which every well-regulated-son and daughter is expected to bestow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Riana's World (Spellbinder)

Children's Books

Shirrefs, mark

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hodder Children`S Books

Through China With a Camera

Franklin Classics

Through China with a Camera

From Foreword - Unabridged reprint of 1873-1874 book. John Thomson photographed China from 1862 to 1872 traveling with the specific goal of making a photographic record of the Orient. Not allowing the complexities and wonders of Asia to awe or distract him, he honed his eye and exerted a harsh self-discipline. The author was always able to sublimate his personality and to allow the essence of his subject to register clearly. (Description by http-mart, Roy Schoenbeck)

China and Its People in Early Photographs: An Unabridged Reprint of the Classic 1873/4 Work

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Dover Pubns

Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays — by Thomson himself or social activist Adolphe Smith — that offer sharply drawn vignettes of lower-class laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and other street people. A treasure trove of astonishing historical detail.

Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs

Dover Publications

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