Sino-Western Yangtze River Family Stories
Captain Cornell Plant’s Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges was published in 1921, 1926 & 1932 and originally issued to coincide with the launch of S.S. Loong Mow, the first scenic passenger cruise ship in the Three Gorges. Ivon Donnelly illustrated the book. However, Captain Plant had launched commercial and passenger steamship service through the Yangtze’s […]
Surgeon’s Report re Samuel Cornell Plant, Deceased “Samuel Cornell Plant embarked, together with Mrs. Plant & two Chinese girls on board S.S. Teiresias 23rd February 1921. “I was called to see him first on the afternoon of following day. I was told that he had been ill for a week and that he was suffering […]