British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901, Volume 2

In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years

Volume 2: Mid-Century Explorations, 1841-1863 J L Scott, Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite (1841); W H Medhurst, A Glance at the Interior of China (1850); T W Blakiston, Five Months on the Yangtze (1862); G Fleming, Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary (1863)