Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt

One of those settlers was Theodore Hamberg, a young Swedish missionary with a thin chinstrap beard that set off his delicate, nearly effeminate features. Marked as 'homes of fever or death,' the ghostly manors sat silent and abandoned, their empty gaze passing judgment on the settlers below. But as though their builders had strayed too far from the protection of the settlement, the inhabitants of those houses sickened and died. Some of the wealthier merchants had built opulent mansions in those hills, with terraced gardens commanding a view of the harbor and town.

Leaving the concentration of godowns, military barracks, and trading firms along the colony's nostalgically named central streets (The Queen's Road, Wellington Street, Holly-wood Road), one could find the grandest vistas in the gravel paths that led up the coast into the hills, but the European settlement soon gave way to scattered Chinese houses among fields growing rice and sweet potatoes unchanged in the decade since the British took the island as their prize in the Opium War. Urn:oclc:849817492 Republisher_date 20120922063205 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120922040551 Scanner Kong in 1852 was a diseased and watery place, a rocky island off the southern shore of the Qing Empire where the inhabitants lived in dread of what one described as 'the miasma set free from the ground which was everywhere being turned up.' A small British settlement sat between the mountains and the bay, but the emerald and sapphire glory of the scene belied the darkness below the surface. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:57:34 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA158618 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt