Author Name: Collis, Maurice
Title: Foreign Mud: Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio At Canton in the 1830's & the Anglo Chinese War That Followed
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
Book Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: NY Alfred A. Knopf 1947
ISBN Number: B0007DMMQU
Seller ID: 15886
Ex-Library; 305 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. University ex-library with stamps, pocket and spine label pen. Attractive teal cloth gilt decorated spine and boards with faded gilt lettering. Just a bit of rub to edges, spine tips and corner tips. Soft bump to bottom corner tips. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Boards are straight, spine is square and pages are otherwise clean. Illustrated in black and white photographs of paintings. Introductory: The vision of Cathey danced before the eyes of the early navigators. To furnish the enchantment they had Marco Polo and a thousand rumours. And since to get to China by the way he went was impossible, since the Silk Road was no longer a safe caravan route, but swept by the wars of Central Asian kings, a sea passage had to be found.
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