Claudius Madrolle (22 July 1870 – 16 June 1949) was a French explorer in Africa and Asia and editor of travel guides who specialized in East Asia.^[1][2] Publishers included Comité de l'Asie Française, Hachette and the Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. In 1902, thanks to this young and wealthy French explorer, was published the first of a serie of travel guides to the Far East. From the beginning, he designed his project to match the spirit of well-known guides such as Baedeker, Joanne or Murray. A collection indeed, as a total of 70 guides, 11 of them in English, were published between 1902 and 1939. This period, during which Far East countries were slowly embracing tourism, was also a period of considerable political and social turmoil. For Claudius Madrolle, these changes added serious hurdles to the completion of his project.

Works[edit]

• Claudius Madrolle (1894). Notes d'un voyage en Afrique Occidentale (in French).
• Claudius Madrolle (1895). En Guinee (in French).
• Claudius Madrolle (1900). Hai-Nan (in French).
• Claudius Madrolle (1902). Indo-Chine; Canal de Suez, Djibouti et Harar (in French).
• Claudius Madrolle (c. 1904). Chine du Sud (in French).^[3] (Index)
• Claudius Madrolle (1916). Chine du Sud, Java, Japon (in French) (2nd ed.). Paris: Hachette – via Hathi Trust.
• Claudius Madrolle (1907). Tonkin du sud; Hanoi (in French). Comite de l'Asie Francaise.
• Claudius Madrolle (1912), Northern China, Paris: Hachette & Company, OCLC 8741409, archived from the original on 15 July 2008

References[edit]

• Jean Malochet, 'Les Guides Madrolle 1902–1939, des guides français pour l'Extrême-Orient. Bibliographie commentée et illustrée'. Librairie les routes du globe. Paris. 2018. ISBN 9782956155607

External links[edit]

• Works by or about Claudius Madrolle at Internet Archive
• Open Library. Works by Madrolle