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Books in the Far East genre:

Det rullende Hus (1923)

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The steam house is an iron elephant that runs on steam. Includes The Demon of Cawnpore and Tigers and Traitors. Interior illustrations and possibly cover by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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The Grateful Elephant and Other Stories Translated from the Pali (1923)

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Twenty-six Buddhist parables. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Eugene Watson Burlingame
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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Kejserens Kurér (1923)

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While on his way to Irkutsk to warn the governor of a plot to betray him to the rebel Tatars Michael finds a wife and nearly loses his life more than once. Interior illustrations by Tenggren.... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren
Et al

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1923)

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Loosely based on his own adventures, Herman Melville here tells the story of two American sailors who jump ship on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands and spend four months with the natives. While roundly condemned as fictitious at the t... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, a Sequel to Typee (1924)

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In this sequel to Typee, the narrator is taken off the island by a whaleman, but soon discovers the captain and mate are incompetent. Along with most of the crew he jumps ship in Tahiti and is briefly jailed as a mutineer. On his release he bums abou... View More

Author(s): Herman Melville
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

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Little Pictures of Japan (1925)

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This anthology includes Japanese haiku and two longer fairy tales.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Katharine Sturges

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Bemol and Kusum: Children of Bengal (1926)

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A story of children’s life in India’s Bengal state.

Author(s): Herbert E. Wyman
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

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Michael Strogoff A Courier of the Czar (1927)

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Unusual for Verne, this is a straight adventure story. Michael is sent by the Czar to warn the governor of Irkutsk of the presence of a traitor on his staff. On the Trans-Siberian railway Michael finds a wife. Unfortunately, at least in this translat... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1928)

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This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive.

Author(s): Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s): John Rae
Frank Schoonover

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Liang & Lo (1930)

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Liang and Lo set out on the back of Lo’s water buffalo to slay the dragon.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Rustam: Lion of Persia (1930)

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A retelling of the Persian epic concerning the knight paladin Rustam from the Shahnameh or Book of Kings of Ferdowsi, written around 1000 A.D.

Author(s): Alan Lake Chidsey
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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Sonny Elephant: A Jungle Tale (1930)

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An Indian elephant goes to the edge of the forest to find out more about this creature, man.

Author(s): Madge A. Bigham
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

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The Good Earth (1931)

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A family story of China. Tenggren did only the dust jacket.

Author(s): Pearl S. Buck
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters (1931)

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A series of adventures, some true, others fictional, of American merchantmen and their encounters with pirates around the world. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Rupert Sargent Holland
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

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Mutiny on the Bounty (1932)

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Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was t... View More

Author(s): James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s): Henry C. Pitz

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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932)

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At age thirteen Young Fu is apprenticed to a coppersmith in the big city of Chungking. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1933
Newbery Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1932
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The Story about Ping (1933)

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Ping is a young duck, who misses her master’s boat at evening and must struggle to find her way back the next day. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Marjorie Flack
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Ho-Ming, Girl of New China (1934)

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A twelve-year old girl finds a new way of growing up in the changing society of China in the 1920’s. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1934
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Pitcairn’s Island (1934)

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Following the mutiny on HMS Bounty, Fletcher Christian along with eight of the Bounty’s crew, six Polynesian men and twelve Polynesian women sail for Pitcairn’s Island where they scuttle the Bounty.

Author(s): James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s): Henry C. Pitz

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Fierce-Face: The Story of a Tiger (1936)

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The story of the growth of a young tiger from cub to independent lord of the jungle. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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