The China Vintage Hour
Follow along as Laszlo narrates exciting tales from old documented travels.
In this Part 2 of Sven Hedin’s travels through Asia, we’re picking up in Kashgar, right as Sven is gearing up for his trek through the Taklamakan Desert from Market to the Khotan Daria (river).
In this episode, we look at the Swedish adventurer, explorer, cartographer extraordinaire Sven Hedin, and read a few selections from his book Through Asia Volumes 1 & 2.
In this passage once again he is on his mission for the East India Company to get ahold of the best seeds, plants, and processing secrets.
Before we leave Mr. Robert Fortune behind, there are still one or two more episodes worth of gems to include in these vintage passages from 1840s-1850s.
In this episode, we’re going to finish off with some excerpts from Fortune’s first book. In addition, we’ll dust off Fortune’s second book and begin exploring his adventures from his second trip.
In this excerpt from Robert Fortunes’ first best-selling book, we hear about his first encounter with tea in China, the thing for which he is best remembered.
In this episode, you get a sense that China wasn’t the safest place for Westerners to visit in Fortune’s time. But the lure of China was always too strong and people like Fortune just couldn’t resist.
Laszlo continues on with more of Robert Fortune’s romps through Zhoushan, Shanghai, and Zhejiang Province during his 1843-1846 visit to China on behalf of the London Horticultural Society