Travel letters
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- Title
- Travel letters
- Date
- 1927-1959
- Traveller
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- Schoedler, Lillian
- Reference
- MC 273 box 6 items 89-92
- Region
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- North America
- East Asia
- South Asia
- Middle East
- Russia
- Europe
- Caribbean
- Africa
- Australasia
- South America
- South-East Asia
- Country
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- United States
- Mexico
- Argentina
- Ecuador
- Venezuela
- Somalia
- Kenya
- Guatemala
- Tanganyika
- South Africa
- Rwanda
- Uganda
- Peru
- Chile
- Brazil
- Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
- Colombia
- El Salvador
- Honduras
- Italy
- Tunisia
- Libya
- Greece
- Sudan
- Liberia
- Nicaragua
- Portugal
- Papua New Guinea
- Nigeria
- Algeria
- Morocco
- Austria
- Costa Rica
- Spain
- Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Scotland
- Laos
- Vietnam
- Korea
- China
- Russia
- Persia (Iran)
- Cambodia
- Afghanistan
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Japan
- Panama
- India
- Thailand
- Iraq
- Wales
- England
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Estonia
- Finland
- Norway
- Iceland
- Germany
- Czech Republic
- Andorra
- France
- Hungary
- Bulgaria
- Turkey
- Indonesia
- Cameroon
- Hong Kong
- French Indochina
- Georgia
- Dahomey (Benin)
- Armenia
- Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
- Places
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- New York
- Cape Town
- Durban
- Mbabane
- Kruger National Park
- Victoria Falls
- Lusaka
- Elisabethville
- Entebbe
- Kigoma
- Bukoba
- Stanleyville
- Congo River
- Mogadishu
- Addis Ababa
- Mombasa
- Zanzibar
- Ujiji
- Ngongoro Crater
- Fort Portal
- Kigali
- Helsinki
- Riga
- Stockholm
- Bremen
- London
- Carmel
- California
- Goma
- San Francisco
- Nairobi
- Rio de Janeiro
- Cuzco
- Kampala
- Salt Lake City
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Buenos Aires
- Bogotá
- Zurich
- Athens
- Acropolis
- Parthenon
- Colorado
- Berne
- Genoa
- Hanover
- Koblenz
- Majorca
- Mukden
- Nuremberg
- Pune
- St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Heidelberg
- Bulolo
- Kano
- Gao
- Quito
- Puira
- Lake Titicaca
- Tierra del Fuego
- Strait of Magellan
- Marne Valley
- Vosges Mountains
- Basel
- Munich
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Innsbruck
- Dublin
- Galway
- Casablanca
- Oujda
- Colomb Bechar
- Sahara
- Punkaharju
- Southampton
- Arctic Circle
- Thingvellir
- Rangoon
- Calcutta
- Darjeeling
- Benares
- Agra
- Taj Mahal
- Delhi
- Bali
- Peshawar
- Kashmir
- Udaipur
- Baluchistan
- Quetta
- Meshed
- Tehran
- Nishapur
- Khyber Pass
- Isfahan
- Penang
- Batavia
- Florida
- Panama Canal
- Los Angeles
- Honolulu
- Yokohama
- Tokyo
- Kobe
- Padang
- Kyoto
- Shanghai
- Johore
- Koya-San Temple
- Sumatra
- Medan
- Brastagi
- Persepolis
- Shiraz
- Chieng Mei
- Colombo
- Trichinopoly
- Lahore
- Baghdad
- Mosul
- Constantinople
- Bangkok
- Sofia
- Geneva
- Boston
- Paris
- Carcassonne
- Karlsbad
- Berlin
- Reykjavík
- Budapest
- Angkor
- Phnom Penh
- Dalat
- Moscow
- Crimea
- Manchuria
- Port Arthur
- Peking
- Diamond Mountains
- Seoul
- Soochow
- Hangchow
- Canton
- Hanoi
- Mekong River
- Saigon
- Hué
- Trondheim
- Hollandia
- Bombay (Mumbai)
- Description
- A collection of letters describing Lillian Schoedler's travels around the world. These start with an account of a holiday in Japan, where she lands a job working with the head of General Motors in the Far East, entailing travels to Singapore, China, Malaysia, Indonesea and India. She witnesses the aftermath of the Nanking disaster, tours rubber and tobacco estates in Sumatra, and sees Hindu ruins in Java and a cremation in Bali. Later trips see her venturing into Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She drives through sandstorms in Persia in a Buick, travels on the Trans-Siberian Railway, attends the 1930 meeting of the League of Nations when she is working for Edward Filene, and drives across England in a Wolseley motor car. Other adventures include crossing the Sahara, being caught in Abyssinia as the Italians invade, and seeing Britain, France and Japan immediately after the Second World War. There are some miscellaneous notes at the end.
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