"A lively narrative, the reader gets a vivid picture of Manchuria under war conditions." -The Congregationalist 1905
"Anything that John Fox writes has distinction." -World Today 1905
"One of the best correspondents in the field." - The Book Buyer 1905
In John Fox's 1905 book "Following the Sun Flag," he recounts his experiences as a war correspondent in Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. Fox was one of the newspaper correspondents who flocked to Japan on the outbreak of the war.
With Port Arthur as a goal, a number of war correspondents, among them Mr. John Fox, Jr., set out for Japan in the early part of the Japanese-Russian war, with the distinct purpose in view of witnessing the Japanese "in assault and in retreat—to see him fighting, wounded, and since such things in war must be, dying—dead." We have become tolerably well acquainted with the difficulties of correspondents in the East, but this little book by Fox gives them a picturesque and almost humorous turn which helps one realize the helplessness of the newspaper man with the Japanese forces.
The chief interest and complacency of the book is in the free and easy style by which he gives sidelights into the examples of patriotism, sacrifices of the people of all ranks, and conditions of men and women in assisting the soldiers who went to the front, as well as into the habits and customs of the domestic circles of the Japanese and their amusements.
"Following the Sun-Flag" gives us a picture of turn of the century society in Japan, a comparative study of Japanese character that is finely realistic, and a series of personal experiences carefully noted. The work is never dull and is brightened with a touch of happy humor.
In his conclusion Fox notes:
"All my life Japan had been one of the two countries on earth I most wanted to see. No more enthusiastic pro-Japanese ever put foot on the shore of that little island than I was when I swung into Yokohama Harbor nearly seven months before. I had lost much--but I was carrying away in heart and mind the nameless charm of the land and of the people--for the charm of neither has much succumbed to the horrors imported from us."
About the author:
John Fox Jr. (1862 –1919) was an American journalist, war correspondent, novelist, and short story writer. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish–American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine.
"Following the Sun-Flag" is a well-regarded historical account, cited by the following modern works:
• John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author, Bill York – 2002
• Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, Flora 2006
• War and Society Volume 1: A Yearbook of Military History, Bond, 2015
• From Ally to Enemy: Anglo-Japanese Military Relations 1900-45, Towle – 2006
• Political History and Culture of Russia, 2003
• Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military, Edgerton – 1997
Other works by the author include:
• A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
• Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897)
• The Kentuckians (1898)
• A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899)
• Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War (1900)
• Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901)
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"Anything that John Fox writes has distinction." -World Today 1905
"One of the best correspondents in the field." - The Book Buyer 1905
In John Fox's 1905 book "Following the Sun Flag," he recounts his experiences as a war correspondent in Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. Fox was one of the newspaper correspondents who flocked to Japan on the outbreak of the war.
With Port Arthur as a goal, a number of war correspondents, among them Mr. John Fox, Jr., set out for Japan in the early part of the Japanese-Russian war, with the distinct purpose in view of witnessing the Japanese "in assault and in retreat—to see him fighting, wounded, and since such things in war must be, dying—dead." We have become tolerably well acquainted with the difficulties of correspondents in the East, but this little book by Fox gives them a picturesque and almost humorous turn which helps one realize the helplessness of the newspaper man with the Japanese forces.
The chief interest and complacency of the book is in the free and easy style by which he gives sidelights into the examples of patriotism, sacrifices of the people of all ranks, and conditions of men and women in assisting the soldiers who went to the front, as well as into the habits and customs of the domestic circles of the Japanese and their amusements.
"Following the Sun-Flag" gives us a picture of turn of the century society in Japan, a comparative study of Japanese character that is finely realistic, and a series of personal experiences carefully noted. The work is never dull and is brightened with a touch of happy humor.
In his conclusion Fox notes:
"All my life Japan had been one of the two countries on earth I most wanted to see. No more enthusiastic pro-Japanese ever put foot on the shore of that little island than I was when I swung into Yokohama Harbor nearly seven months before. I had lost much--but I was carrying away in heart and mind the nameless charm of the land and of the people--for the charm of neither has much succumbed to the horrors imported from us."
About the author:
John Fox Jr. (1862 –1919) was an American journalist, war correspondent, novelist, and short story writer. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish–American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine.
"Following the Sun-Flag" is a well-regarded historical account, cited by the following modern works:
• John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author, Bill York – 2002
• Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, Flora 2006
• War and Society Volume 1: A Yearbook of Military History, Bond, 2015
• From Ally to Enemy: Anglo-Japanese Military Relations 1900-45, Towle – 2006
• Political History and Culture of Russia, 2003
• Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military, Edgerton – 1997
Other works by the author include:
• A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
• Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897)
• The Kentuckians (1898)
• A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899)
• Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War (1900)
• Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901)
Following the Sun-Flag: a Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria
"A lively narrative, the reader gets a vivid picture of Manchuria under war conditions." -The Congregationalist 1905
"Anything that John Fox writes has distinction." -World Today 1905
"One of the best correspondents in the field." - The Book Buyer 1905
In John Fox's 1905 book "Following the Sun Flag," he recounts his experiences as a war correspondent in Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. Fox was one of the newspaper correspondents who flocked to Japan on the outbreak of the war.
With Port Arthur as a goal, a number of war correspondents, among them Mr. John Fox, Jr., set out for Japan in the early part of the Japanese-Russian war, with the distinct purpose in view of witnessing the Japanese "in assault and in retreat—to see him fighting, wounded, and since such things in war must be, dying—dead." We have become tolerably well acquainted with the difficulties of correspondents in the East, but this little book by Fox gives them a picturesque and almost humorous turn which helps one realize the helplessness of the newspaper man with the Japanese forces.
The chief interest and complacency of the book is in the free and easy style by which he gives sidelights into the examples of patriotism, sacrifices of the people of all ranks, and conditions of men and women in assisting the soldiers who went to the front, as well as into the habits and customs of the domestic circles of the Japanese and their amusements.
"Following the Sun-Flag" gives us a picture of turn of the century society in Japan, a comparative study of Japanese character that is finely realistic, and a series of personal experiences carefully noted. The work is never dull and is brightened with a touch of happy humor.
In his conclusion Fox notes:
"All my life Japan had been one of the two countries on earth I most wanted to see. No more enthusiastic pro-Japanese ever put foot on the shore of that little island than I was when I swung into Yokohama Harbor nearly seven months before. I had lost much--but I was carrying away in heart and mind the nameless charm of the land and of the people--for the charm of neither has much succumbed to the horrors imported from us."
About the author:
John Fox Jr. (1862 –1919) was an American journalist, war correspondent, novelist, and short story writer. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish–American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine.
"Following the Sun-Flag" is a well-regarded historical account, cited by the following modern works:
• John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author, Bill York – 2002
• Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, Flora 2006
• War and Society Volume 1: A Yearbook of Military History, Bond, 2015
• From Ally to Enemy: Anglo-Japanese Military Relations 1900-45, Towle – 2006
• Political History and Culture of Russia, 2003
• Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military, Edgerton – 1997
Other works by the author include:
• A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
• Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897)
• The Kentuckians (1898)
• A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899)
• Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War (1900)
• Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901)
"Anything that John Fox writes has distinction." -World Today 1905
"One of the best correspondents in the field." - The Book Buyer 1905
In John Fox's 1905 book "Following the Sun Flag," he recounts his experiences as a war correspondent in Japan and Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. Fox was one of the newspaper correspondents who flocked to Japan on the outbreak of the war.
With Port Arthur as a goal, a number of war correspondents, among them Mr. John Fox, Jr., set out for Japan in the early part of the Japanese-Russian war, with the distinct purpose in view of witnessing the Japanese "in assault and in retreat—to see him fighting, wounded, and since such things in war must be, dying—dead." We have become tolerably well acquainted with the difficulties of correspondents in the East, but this little book by Fox gives them a picturesque and almost humorous turn which helps one realize the helplessness of the newspaper man with the Japanese forces.
The chief interest and complacency of the book is in the free and easy style by which he gives sidelights into the examples of patriotism, sacrifices of the people of all ranks, and conditions of men and women in assisting the soldiers who went to the front, as well as into the habits and customs of the domestic circles of the Japanese and their amusements.
"Following the Sun-Flag" gives us a picture of turn of the century society in Japan, a comparative study of Japanese character that is finely realistic, and a series of personal experiences carefully noted. The work is never dull and is brightened with a touch of happy humor.
In his conclusion Fox notes:
"All my life Japan had been one of the two countries on earth I most wanted to see. No more enthusiastic pro-Japanese ever put foot on the shore of that little island than I was when I swung into Yokohama Harbor nearly seven months before. I had lost much--but I was carrying away in heart and mind the nameless charm of the land and of the people--for the charm of neither has much succumbed to the horrors imported from us."
About the author:
John Fox Jr. (1862 –1919) was an American journalist, war correspondent, novelist, and short story writer. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish–American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine.
"Following the Sun-Flag" is a well-regarded historical account, cited by the following modern works:
• John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author, Bill York – 2002
• Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, Flora 2006
• War and Society Volume 1: A Yearbook of Military History, Bond, 2015
• From Ally to Enemy: Anglo-Japanese Military Relations 1900-45, Towle – 2006
• Political History and Culture of Russia, 2003
• Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military, Edgerton – 1997
Other works by the author include:
• A Cumberland Vendetta and Other Stories (1895)
• Hell-fer-Sartain and Other Stories (1897)
• The Kentuckians (1898)
• A Mountain Europa (serialized 1892, published 1899)
• Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War (1900)
• Blue-grass and Rhododendron: Outdoors in Old Kentucky (1901)
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 08/14/2022 |
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