Papers connected with the Development of Trade Between British Burmah and Western China and with the Mission to Yunnan of 1874-5. Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

[FOREIGN OFFICE].

Verlag: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London., 1876

Beschreibung

Parliamentary Paper (Commons Command Paper 1456), printed sketch, 78pp, 32 x 20.5cm original stab sewn title wrappers, patterned fore edges, paginated in ink by an early hand, a very good copy. Important source material covering the decades' long urge for the establishment of a British trade route to Western China through Burma. It reports regional and ethnic tensions and factors in the fall of Tali (Dali) with a printed sketch by the "Political Agent", in Mandalay, Captain Lowndes, culminating in a report on the Panthay Rebellion. It prints an irritated letter to the Secretary of India by Captain Richard Sprye who had long advocated a trade route through Rangoon. Following the Panthay Rebellion, a new expedition gathered at Bhamo, under Colonel Horace Browne. The expedition was to survey a possible railway line to Tengyue (Tengchong) and then make the epic journey across China to Shanghai. Britain sent a consular official, Augustus Raymond Margary, to meet Browne?s party at Bhamo and act as their interpreter--it took him six months to make the 1800 mile rendez-vous with Browne and he famously perished on the return trip. His instructions and the report on his death are included in the present Papers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 173688

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Titel: Papers connected with the Development of ...

Verlag: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1876

Einband: Softcover