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Far East Genre
Books in the Far East genre:
Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Round the Globe (1840)
Author(s):
Frederick Debell Bennett
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1841)
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Allen Robert Branston
The Strange Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple (1861)
Author(s):
Constantine Joseph Beschi
Illustrator(s):
Alfred Crowquill
Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar (1877)
Unusual for Verne this is a straightforward adventure novel. Unfortunately it is, at least in the English translation, very poorly written.
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Jules-Descartes Férat
Indian Fairy Tales (1892)
A selection of Indian folk and fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
John D. Batten
The Jungle Book (1894)
Seven stories, including three about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
W. H. Drake
John Lockwood Kipling
The Jungle Book (1894)
Seven stories, including three about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
W. H. Drake
Paul Frenzeny
John Lockwood Kipling
The Red True Story Book (1895)
A collection of true stories of adventure and heroism. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Eight stories, five about Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
John Lockwood Kipling
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Eight stories, five about Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
John Lockwood Kipling
The Jolly Chinee (1896)
Six stories with pictures. Read online at Baldwin Library.
Author(s):
E. Veale
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Cox
The Story of Little Black Sambo (1899)
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s):
Helen Bannerman
Kim (1901)
Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
John Lockwood Kipling
Kim (1901)
Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
John Lockwood Kipling
The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
Stories from many different cultures. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Story of Little Black Sambo (1908)
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai (1908)
Thirty-four Indian fables. Read for free online at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Author(s):
Maude Barrows Dutton
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Arabian Nights Their Best-Known Tales (1909)
Ten of the most famous tales from the Thousand and One Nights, adapted for younger readers. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Den underbare prinsen och andra indiska epos återberättade för ungdom (1916)
A Swedish translation of several Indian epic tales.
Author(s):
Erik Jotson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines (1917)
A story about children living in the Philippines for American children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
John Stuart Thomson
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham