Susanna Hoe, Derek Roebuck

The Taking of Hong Kong (eBook, PDF)

Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view for the first time '- through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara '- and shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136822490
• Artikelnr.: 39704707

Autorenporträt

Susanna Hoe, Derek Roebuck

Inhaltsangabe

1: Whenever there is a Breeze
2: By Warship to China
3: Into the Tiger's Mouth
4: Climbing the Ladder
5: The Opium Trade
6: Some Gross Insult
7: Elliot's 'Troublesome Friend'
8: All Engineered by Elliot
9: Charles Elliot Alone
10: Looking Westwards
11: Two Such Imbeciles
12: The Road to Gloary
13: Whimsical as a Shuttlecock
14: Hipping off the Fox-Hounds
15: Wrecked Ashore
16: The Web of Calumny
17: Elliot Where Is He?
18: Exiled to St Helena
19: Epilogue