Narrative Of A Recent Imprisonment In China After The Wreck Of The Kite (cambridge Library Collection - Travel And Exploration In Asia)

Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the Kite (1841) is an autobiographical account, written by the merchant sailor John Lee Scott, of his 'shipwreck and subsequent imprisonment in the Celestial Empire' in 1840, during the First Anglo-Chinese or so-called 'Opium' War. In eight chapters, Scott describes leaving South Shields in the Kite, 'a beautiful brig of 281 tons' for Singapore in order to 'carry stores to the British fleet destined for China'. Scott recounts how the Kite was capsized on its way to deliver supplies to the British fleet based around Chusan, and how he and other crew members, after being washed up on the island of Ningpo, were captured by the Chinese and held prisoner for five months. Scott's Narrative provides an interesting insight into British perceptions of the Chinese during the Anglo-Chinese conflicts of the nineteenth century. First published in 1841, this is the autobiographical account of merchant sailor John Lee Scott about his shipwreck and imprisonment in China during the First Opium War. Scott's Narrative provides an interesting insight into nineteenth-century British perceptions of the Chinese during the Anglo-Chinese conflict. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 5 PREFACE......Page 11 Contents......Page 13 CHAPTER I......Page 17 CHAPTER II......Page 33 CHAPTER III......Page 49 CHAPTER IV......Page 66 CHAPTER V......Page 83 CHAPTER VI......Page 98 CHAPTER VII......Page 115 CHAPTER VIII......Page 126 NOTES......Page 143 Cover 1 Frontmatter 5 PREFACE 11 Contents 13 CHAPTER I 17 CHAPTER II 33 CHAPTER III 49 CHAPTER IV 66 CHAPTER V 83 CHAPTER VI 98 CHAPTER VII 115 CHAPTER VIII 126 NOTES 143 9781108013802 Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration