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Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite (Paperback) Loot Price: R753
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Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite (Paperback): John Lee Scott

Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite (Paperback)

John Lee Scott

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia

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Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite (1841) is an autobiographical account, written by the merchant sailor John Lee Scott, of his 'shipwreck and subsequent imprisonment in the Celestial Empire' in 1840, during the First Anglo-Chinese or so-called 'Opium' War. In eight chapters, Scott describes leaving South Shields in the Kite, 'a beautiful brig of 281 tons' for Singapore in order to 'carry stores to the British fleet destined for China'. Scott recounts how the Kite was capsized on its way to deliver supplies to the British fleet based around Chusan, and how he and other crew members, after being washed up on the island of Ningpo, were captured by the Chinese and held prisoner for five months. Scott's Narrative provides an interesting insight into British perceptions of the Chinese during the Anglo-Chinese conflicts of the nineteenth century.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
Release date: June 2010
First published: March 2010
Authors: John Lee Scott
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-01380-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
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LSN: 1-108-01380-5
Barcode: 9781108013802

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