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| Data.No. | 607 |
Title
Annotation | Voyage of His Majesty's Ship ALCESTE, to China,Corea and the Island of Lewchew with an account of her Shipwreck
hard cover, 8 vo. leather. first edition .Illustrated with 5 fine handcoloured aquatint plates.
Account of the voyage of the Alceste which brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador, and specifically to negotiate the China trade, at the time a matter of dispute between China and Great Britain. McLeod, who was surgeon on the ship, describes the voyage out, the various calls in the East Indies, surveying off Korea, the visit to Okinawa, another to Manila, and the shipwreck off the coast of Sumatra and subsequent rescue from Malay pirates. This was one of the most popular travel books of its time, portraying the Far East to a much wider audience than had been reached by earlier accounts.The
author of this book and Captain Basil Hall (Author of the book titled " Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island" published in 1818 in London) had delivered the Bible to the Korean local governer(Mr.Cho,Dae Bok) during their vistit to Korea in 1816 for the first time in history of Korea.
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| Author | John M'leod,M.D. |
| Publisher | John Murray,London |
| Pub.Year(s) | 1817 |
| Language | English |
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