Five Months on the Yang-Tsze : With a Narrative of the Exploration of its Upper Waters and Notices of the Present Rebellions in China

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Thomas Blakiston was a British army officer who organised an expedition up the Yangtsze river while posted in Canton during the second Opium War in 1859. First published in 1862, this is his account of navigating 'one of the greatest rivers in the world a distance of eighteen hundred miles'.