An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China
A Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas
Seiten
2012
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-04558-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-04558-2 (ISBN)
This two-volume 1844 work is a memoir of the tour of duty of Captain Arthur Cunynghame (1812–84) in China as aide-de-camp to Major-General Lord Saltoun, Commander of the East India Company's troops there. His observations of 'a country that is so strange and new to all Europe' are fascinating.
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. In Volume 2, the author is invited to visit Ning-po, recently given the status of a 'treaty port', and he subsequently travels to both Hong Kong and Canton (Guangzhou), both now open to international trade. Cunynghame next accompanied Saltoun to the Philippines, and gives a fascinating account of life in Manila. Ordered home in 1844, he travelled via Hong Kong and Malaya to Calcutta, then south to Madras (Chennai) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and eventually home to England, via the Red Sea, the Sinai Desert, Egypt and the Mediterranean, noting the curiosities among both people and places with undiminished zest.
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. In Volume 2, the author is invited to visit Ning-po, recently given the status of a 'treaty port', and he subsequently travels to both Hong Kong and Canton (Guangzhou), both now open to international trade. Cunynghame next accompanied Saltoun to the Philippines, and gives a fascinating account of life in Manila. Ordered home in 1844, he travelled via Hong Kong and Malaya to Calcutta, then south to Madras (Chennai) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and eventually home to England, via the Red Sea, the Sinai Desert, Egypt and the Mediterranean, noting the curiosities among both people and places with undiminished zest.
14. Start for Chin-hae; 15. War services concluded; 16. Grand banquet; 17. Hong-Kong; 18. Canton; 19. Arrival at Manila; 20. Cocoa-nut trees; 21. Belleguia; 22. Hong-Kong; 23. The Bentinck; 24. Increase of passengers; 25. Mounts Sinai and Horeb; 26. The Great Liverpool.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.4.2012 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia ; Volume 2 |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Plates, black and white; 6 Line drawings, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 450 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-04558-8 / 1108045588 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-04558-2 / 9781108045582 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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