Scidmore: Westward to the Far East

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore: Westward to the Far East. A Guide to the Principal Cities of China and Japan with a Note on Korea. (Eighth edition; [Montreal] printed for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company 1900)

• Digitized:
  > Internet Archive
  > University of British Columbia (DOI: 10.14288/1.0374481)
• Bibliographic reference: BS 2151
• Entry in Wiener China-Bibliographie (referring to 1893 ed.)

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1856–1928) was an American writer, photographer and geographer. She traveled the Far East accompanying her brother George Hawthoren Scidmore, a career diplomat serving in the Far East. Scidmore joined the National Geographic Society in the 1890s and later bekame the frist female board member of the National Geographic Society.

Last update: August 24, 2019.