The Land of Green Tea: Letters and Adventures of Colonel C.L.Baker of the Madras Artillery, 1834-50 (In India and the First Chinese Opium War)

Baker [Colonel C L]; Edited By Masefield [Pamela]

ISBN 10: 0906290112 / ISBN 13: 9780906290118

Published by Unicorn Press, London, 1995

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viii, 182pp, black & white illustrations, maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering, dust jacket in excellent condition, price clipped. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Land of Green Tea: Letters and Adventures of Colonel C.L.Baker of the Madras Artillery, 1834-50 (In India and the First Chinese Opium War)
• Publisher: Unicorn Press, London
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0906290112
• ISBN 13: 9780906290118
• Binding: Maroon Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Biographical/Letters

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Synopsis

This is the story of events leading to the first Chinese Opium War, recorded by Wyndham Baker in letters to his family. From the East India Company's Croydon training college, he goes out to India and thence, in response to the British passion for tea-drinking, to China with his Gunners, to set up the first tea factory in Canton - in payment for which the British shipped opium from India.