{"product_id":"narrative-of-the-earl-of-laurence-oliphant-9781108045834","title":"Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59","description":"In 1857 Laurence Oliphant (1829-88), lawyer, journalist, diplomat and sometime spy, later Liberal MP, satirical novelist, and, for a time, adherent of the religious mystic Thomas Harris, became private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811-63), accompanying him to China, and thence to Japan, on a mission to protect and extend British trading interests in the region. Oliphant's 1859 account of the trip was published in two volumes. Volume 2 deals with the negotiation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Yedo, the legalisation of the Chinese opium trade and combat with Chinese insurgents at Nankin. The work is a mixture of travel narrative - Oliphant had previously written about his travels in Nepal and in the Crimea (also reissued in this series) - and political analysis. It provides both an informative account of the war from a privileged vantage point and a window upon Oliphant's own colourful career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurence Oliphant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1108045839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781108045834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.23d","brand":"Laurence Oliphant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43924088553727,"sku":"9781108045834","price":68.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b34c9bd1-d2f0-428b-9ddf-46a000e9ed25.jpg?v=1681068406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrative-of-the-earl-of-laurence-oliphant-9781108045834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}