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这就是这本书自己的舞台：威廉·埃德加·盖尔站在书页上，亲口用普通话朗读他自己的书——1908年，他率领探险队从山海关出发，历时数月，徒步走完长城全程直至嘉峪关以西，成为有记录以来第一位全程走完长城的人。柔和的中国传统弦乐轻轻衬在话音之下。书角的条形码每一帧都在——随时扫码，回到这家书店。
This is the book's own stage: William Edgar Geil stands on the page and reads his own book aloud in Mandarin. In 1908 he led his expedition from Shanhaiguan and walked the whole Great Wall end to end, west past Jiayuguan — the first man ever recorded to do it. Soft traditional Chinese strings play low under the narration, and the barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
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What’s Inside
- Chapters I–XIII, complete: 第一章 仅仅是初步的 · 第二章 激动人心的展望 · 第三章 秦皇岛的悲剧 · 第四章 唯有第一 · 第五章 从大海到东端 · 第六章 古代建筑的浪潮 · 第七章 从十三陵到黄河 · 第八章 保卫长城 · 第九章 最古老的中国：黄土与河套 · 第十章 秦的崛起：七大丞相 · 第十一章 宁夏来信 · 第十二章 成吉思汗，红色袭击者——在宁夏穿越长城 · 第十三章 沙漠环线：甘肃 (Volume Two carries Chapters XIV–XXVII.)
- 5 hours 8 minutes of narration — Geil himself stands on the stage and reads his own book aloud in Mandarin, chapter by chapter, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes.
- 66 photographs from the 1909 book — Geil's own plates, most of them taken by Geil himself along the walk in 1908.
- The barcode rides every stage frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
This is the public-domain text of William Edgar Geil's The Great Wall of China (1909), presented as a talking hologram book in a fresh Mandarin translation made for this edition from the public-domain English original — no modern translation was used. Geil died on April 11, 1925, more than a hundred years ago. The narration is a synthesized Mandarin reading (Piper — Huayan) of that text, made for this edition; the narrator on the stage is Geil himself, from his own photographs in the 1909 book, and the book says so plainly in its disclaimer, which stands first, before the book begins. Music: “Chill China Love” by Frank Nora (FreePD, CC0). Editor: Franklin Langston.
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