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Thomas Wright Blakiston (1832 1891) was an army officer, explorer
and naturalist who served with the British forces in Ireland, Nova
Scotia and the Crimea before being posted to Canton during the
second Opium War in 1859. While in Canton, Blakiston organised an
expedition up the Yangtsze river and Five Months on the Yang-tsze
(1862) is his account of his experiences navigating 'one of the
greatest rivers in the world a distance of eighteen hundred miles'.
Despite the region being subject to extensive insurgency, Blakiston
was able to travel 900 miles further up the river than any European
before him except Jesuits wearing local attire. His narrative,
divided into nineteen chapters with illustrations by Alfred Barton,
contains many observations relating to the politically volatile
situation in China as well as descriptions of the local landscape,
flora and fauna. It remained the standard account of the region for
fifty years.
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