两位徒步全程考察过长城的威廉

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美国人William Edgar Geil (1865 - 1925)
英国人William Lindesay (1956 - )

这两位英美人士，都痴迷于长城，热爱中国文化。他们是屈指可数的几位全程考察过长城的探险家。据认为美国传教士 Geil 可能是包括中国人在内，史上第一位。他还去过非洲，耶路撒冷，等多地探险考察，并出版相关书籍。最后因感染流感，死于意大利的威尼斯。

100多年前，Geil<The Great Wall of China>每一章有一句中文谚语，及其译文。书中还包括照片，素描，漫画等详实内容，图文并茂。给予长城极高的评价和赞誉，多次出现：Great Wall, all hail!

以下部分摘自本书：

垒石头比扔石头好，保护生者的高墙远胜过掩埋死者的沟渠。

在传统上，中国人实际上是一个追求文学的民族，至少就他们的领导人而言是这样；有理由认为，中国的现代化将与日本不同，这个帝国将把她强大的影响力放在和平一边。

1909 出版 .....................................................May 1, 1999 出版...................................2007 出版

Geil 的著作：

• Pocket sword, a pocketbook of Scripture reading for all people. 1891.
• Laodicea; or The great sermon of the stones. 1897.
• The isle that is called Patmos. Philadelphia: A. J. Rowland. 1897.
• Ocean and isle. 1902.
• A Yankee on the Yangtze. NY: A. C. Armstrong & Son. 1904. Yangkee在长江
• The automatic calf: the Commandments up-to-date. London: S. W. Partridge. 1905.
• A Yankee in pigmy land. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1905.
• Man of Galilee. NY: YMCA. 1906.
• The Great Wall of China. NY: Sturgis & Walton. 1909. 中国的长城
• Eighteen capitals of China. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 1911. 中国的18个都城
• Adventures in the African jungle hunting pigmies. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1917.[12]
• The sacred five of China. London: J. Murray. 1926 中国的五岳

Lindesay 著作：

• Alone on the Great Wall. Fulcrum Publishing: 1991. ISBN 9781555910792
• The Great Wall Revisited: From the Jade Gate to Old Dragon's Head. Harvard University Press: 2008. ISBN 9780674031494
• The Great Wall in 50 Objects. Penguin Random House: 2015.
• The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. Odyssey Publications: 1999.
• Beijing. Odyssey Publications: 1999. ISBN 9789622176034
• The Great Wall Explained. China Intercontinental Press: 2012. ISBN 9787508517315
• Marching with Mao: A Biographical Journey. Trafalgar Square Publishing: 1995. ISBN 9780340556641
• The Great Wall: High Above and Down Below. Odyssey Books Maps: 2021. ISBN 9789622178878

未完待续

 

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1909年， Geil <The Great Wall of China> 中的中英文对照谚语。

 

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中国长城研究​

Geil 盖尔1907－08年曾经独自走过长城，于1909年出版了《中国长城》（The Great Wall of China）一书，由纽约的Sturgis and Walton出版社出版。
其关于中国长城的著作，启发了后来的英国人威廉·林赛（William Lindesay，国际长城之友的创始人），萌生了重摄长城的念头，威廉·林赛的摄影展览《万里长城 百年回望——从玉门关到老龙头》2007年在首都博物馆展出。威廉·林赛对威廉·盖尔感谢有加。不仅因为盖尔是最早徒步走过长城全线的人，不仅因为盖尔给了他灵感。威廉说，在西方，包括在盖尔的祖国美国，盖尔的名气都不大，知道他的人很少。这是因为，盖尔的确除了照片，什么都没有从长城拿走。所以，他远不如从中国拿走了无数文物的那些人物知名。然而， 威廉认为盖尔却给今天世界各国的长城研究者乃至中国研究者树立了一个榜样。

Lindesay finds a location in April 2008 depicting what was a fine tower in Geil’s time. The tower now lacks the engraved tablet—probably naming the tower—that was placed above the doorway, while the upper-story battlements have fallen. (Piao Tiejun)

2008年 Lindesay 持 Geil 书中的图片和实物对比，百年前的塔楼顶部已经完全消失。

Great Wall in Hebei Province in 1908. He described the towers as jewels. (William Edgar Geil)

When Lindesay eventually found the location in 2006 the towers had all gone. Locals explained they were destroyed during the Sino-Japanese War in 1938. (William Lindesay)

William Edgar Geil on the Great Wall at Luowenyu, June 7, 1908. William Lindesay had thumbed through Geil’s book The Great Wall of China, and was stunned by the photographs, particularly one showing Geil near a tower on a remote section of the wall. Lindesay had a photo of himself in that very spot but noticed that in his the tower was missing. (William Edgar Geil)

William Lindesay on the Wall at Luowenyu, mid-November 1987. This “coincidental rephotography,” evidencing the disappearance of the watchtower that stood behind Geil in 1908, and which had disappeared by 1987, led Lindesay to systematically document changes on the entire length of China’s Great Wall. (William Lindesay)

相同地段，1908和2006年的长城百年沧桑对照，许多精美的塔楼已经消失。

Lindesay presents a plaque paying tribute to Geil’s “Journey all along the Wall” at a graveside ceremony in Doylestown Cemetery attended by John, Robert and Bradley Laycock, local historian Tim Adamsky and Geil family friend Doris Carr. (Piao Tiejun)

Lindesay 在 Geil 的家乡公墓，向 Geil 致敬！

View of the Barrens today, with copies of stelae that stand at the eastern and western ends of the Wall preserved in the exterior walls. (William Lindesay)

Rev. John Laycock, adoptive grandson of William Edgar Geil and the “family historian,” beside calligraphy copied from the eastern terminus of the Great Wall near its meeting with the Bo Hai Sea. The script reads: “The Martial Barrier Under All Heaven.” (William Lindesay)

A tablet near the western end of the Wall announces the approach of “The Martial Barrier Under All Heaven”—the Great Wall. (William Edgar Geil)

1912 - 1914 年间，Geil 在家乡建造的房子，带有长城雄关的影像。Geil 无亲生子女，收养了一个女儿。