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Overview
Ship captain and China trader Robert Bennet Forbes returned to the East in 1838 to recoup his fortune, and during an adventurous 18 months at sea and in Canton, Hong Kong and Macao he wrote hundreds of letters home to his wife Rose in Boston. The letters, edited by his great-great-granddaughter Phyllis Forbes Kerr, are a charming and detailed record of China and the Western traders on the Pearl River at the beginning of the opium troubles with England. Illustrated with period engravings and paintings in color, Letters from China includes background essays on the China trade, the opium wars, and the men and women who animate the letters.Synopsis
Ship captain and China trader Robert Bennet Forbes returned to the East in 1838 to recoup his fortune, and during an adventurous 18 months at sea and in Canton, Hong Kong and Macao he wrote hundreds of letters home to his wife Rose in Boston. The letters, edited by his great-great-granddaughter Phyllis Forbes Kerr, are a charming and detailed record of China and the Western traders on the Pearl River at the beginning of the opium troubles with England. Illustrated with period engravings and paintings in color, Letters from China includes background essays on the China trade, the opium wars, and the men and women who animate the letters.