Author: Margary, Augustus Raymond.
Title: THE JOURNEY of ... From Shanghae to Bhamo, and back to Manwyne. From his Journals and Letters, With a Brief Biographical Preface: To Which is Added a Conclusion Chapter. By Sir Rutherford Alcock.
Description: London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. 1st Ed. xxiv + 383pp. Port. frontis., linen backed folding map. Light browning, frontis. and title page lightly waterstained, Norfolk and Norwich Library bookplate, rebound in half red cloth with blue marbled boards, sm. library bookplate to upper board, some soiling and wear, spine sl. bumped and faded. ¶ ‘As part of efforts to explore overland trade routes between British India and China's provinces, junior British diplomat Augustus Raymond Margary was sent from Shanghai through southwest China to Bhamo in Upper Burma, where he was supposed to meet Colonel Horace Browne. It took Margary six months to make the 1,800-mile (2,900 km) journey through the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan and he met Brown in Bhamo in late 1874. On the journey back to Shanghai, Margary heard rumors that the return route was not safe and changed the route to Tengyue. However, he did not notify local officials of their arrivals and confronted native people. In a following conflict on 21 February 1875, he and his four Chinese personal staff were killed.’

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; CHINA, JAPAN AND FAR EAST


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