George Staunton

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China - Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A two-volume account of Britain's 1792 diplomatic mission to China, published in 1797 by a member of the delegation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 562
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1439g
• ISBN-13: 9781108045605
• ISBN-10: 110804560X
• Artikelnr.: 35492612

Inhaltsangabe

1. Occasion of the embassy; 2. Preparations for the embassy; 3. Passage to
Madeira. Notices of that island; 4. Passage to Teneriffe; to St Jago.
Notices of those islands; 5. Passage of the line. Course across the
Atlantic. Harbour, city, and country of Rio de Janeiro; 6. Passage to the
southern part of the Atlantic, and of the Indian, Ocean. View of the
Islands of Tristan d'Acunha in the former, and those of St Paul and
Amsterdam in the latter; 7. Entrance into the Straits of Sunda. Visit to
Batavia and Bantam in the Island of Java. View of the southern extremity of
the Island of Sumatra. Passage through the Straits of Banka to
Pulo-Condore; 8. Cochin-China; 9. Passage to the Ladrone Islands near
Macao; and thence to Chu-San. Transactions and observations there; 10.
Navigation through the Yellow Sea. Embassador's entrance into the River
leading to Tien-sing.