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    Meeting the Sun

    A Journey All Round the World

    by William Simpson

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    On 15 September 1872, a young Mongol girl was chosen from a number of candidates to be wife and Empress to the seventeen-year old Tongzhi Emperor of China. She was Xiaozheyi, and was well-educated, attractive, and displayed a talent for poetry, music and art.

    The forthcoming nuptials set the International Settlements abuzz with excitement, and such was the interest in Europe that one of the leading British newspapers of the time, The Illustrated London News, decided to send a correspondent to China specifically to report on the spectacle. The man chosen was WILLIAM SIMPSON, who had already achieved some fame as a correspondent and illustrator in the Crimean War, in India and in Abyssinia.

    Simpson, however, rapidly seized the opportunity to extend the trip to a round-the-world journey from London through France, Italy, Egypt, the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Malaya, and several months in China. He then continued eastwards to Japan, America (where his timely arrival in California enabled him to observe the US Army's campaign against the Modoc Indians), and finally back to England.

    Meeting the Sun, his account of this journey, was published in 1874, a few months after the publication of Jules Verne’s popular Around the World in 80 Days. The similarities between the two books are interesting, even though one is a work of fiction and the other of fact; indeed, it is highly likely that Simpson’s earlier newspaper accounts of these travels in the Illustrated London News and the Daily News, formed a significant part of Verne’s source material.
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    • Primary Category: Travel
    • Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
      # of Pages: 468
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      • Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9781389597435
    • Publish Date: Sep 24, 2017
    • Language English
    • Keywords Victorian, travel, world, history, Chinese, Modoc, Suez, Ceylon, Verne
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    Adrian Lipscomb
    Urunga, NSW, Australia

    Adrian served with the Australian Army in the early 1970s. He then travelled widely in Africa, the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia. In 1982 he joined the Australian Department of Defence and was Liaison Officer to New Zealand at a time when Australia was trying to steer an even-handed course in its relations with US and NZ despite diplomatic friction between the two over access to New Zealand ports by nuclear-armed or powered warships. In 1994 he worked as Tourism Advisor in the Solomon Islands. He was based in Gizo, the capital of Western Province, and actively assisted many local villages to embark upon eco-tourism enterprises. In 1996 he worked as Associate Lecturer with Southern Cross University. He taught two units: International Tourism Perspectives and Tourism Research Methods. In 1997 he accepted a contract to update and rewrite the Lonely Planet Guide to Papua New Guinea. In 2002 he was admitted as a Legal Practitioner. He retired in 2014.

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