An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China: A Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands...

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Arthur Cunynghame

An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China

A Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas

Arthur Cunynghame

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English

Cambridge University Press
26 April 2012

Memoirs; Asian history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Classic travel writing

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia

This two-volume work, published in 1844, is a memoir of time spent in China by Captain Arthur Cunynghame (1812–84), aide-de-camp to Major-General Lord Saltoun, Commander of the East India Company's troops in China. Cunynghame set off from Plymouth Sound on board HMS Belle-Isle in late 1841 to take up his post, and the first half of Volume 1 consists of a description of the long journey out to China (they touched at Rio de Janeiro before re-crossing the Atlantic to South Africa, and later visited Singapore and Hong Kong). Once in China, Cunynghame travelled widely in the course of his duties, and recorded his experiences in detail, from the wonders of the Yangtse River to the walls of Nankin: as he observes in his dedication, 'events and anecdotes occurring in a country that is so strange and new to all Europe may be worth recording'.

By: Arthur Cunynghame
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: Volume 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781108045575
ISBN 10: 110804557X
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 26 April 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. HMS Belle-Isle; 2. Man overboard; 3. Heavy lightning; 4. China Sea; 5. China Sea; 6. Chusan Archipelago; 7. HC iron steamer Ariadne; 8. Surveying ships despatched; 9. The paddy grounds; 10. Westerly winds; 11. Tartar city; 12. The owner of our house; 13. Fever and ague.