Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston: 2 books
by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The journey of which an account is given in the following pages was not undertaken in the special interests of geographical or other science nor in the service of any Government. My chief object was to gratify a long-felt desire to visit those portions of the Chinese Empire which are least known to Europeans,...
by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Less than a dozen years have passed since the guns of British warships first saluted the flag of their country at the Chinese port of Weihaiwei, yet it is nearly a century since the white ensign was seen there for the first time. In the summer of 1816 His Britannic Majesty's frigate Alceste, accompanied...