An Aide-De-Camp's Recollections of Service in China 2 Volume Set: A Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas
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This two-volume work, published in 1844, is a memoir of time spent in China by Captain Arthur Cunynghame (1812-84), aide-de-camp to Major-General Lord Saltoun, Commander of the East India Company's troops in China. Cunynghame set off from Plymouth Sound on board HMS Belle-Isle in late 1841 to take up his post, and the first half of Volume 1 consists of a description of the long journey out to China (they touched at Rio de Janeiro before re-crossing...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108045596
ISBN13:9781108045599
Release Date:April 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:686 Pages
Weight:1.85 lbs.
Dimensions:1.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"
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