Comics Xu Xiake's Travel Notes

"Xu Xiake's Travels" is the world's earliest monograph on limestone karst geomorphology and speleology written by Xu Xiake, a geographer in the Ming Dynasty. It is known as "an investigation record written by a field surveyor." The book selects 18 travel notes written by Xu Xiake in a diary style during his travels from the original work, and introduces in detail the origin, distribution and development mechanism of karst landforms in southwest my country, more than 100 years before the study of limestone landforms by Aisbel abroad. With a novel topic and unique perspective, the book uses easy-to-understand language and a large number of lively hand-drawn illustrations to introduce to young readers what Xu Xiake saw and heard during his journey and his contribution to geology, inspiring children to pursue and explore science from their youth, and to understand the mysteries of science from classic original works.