A Life of Sir Harry Parkes: British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1865-1885 by Robert Morton
A Life of Sir Harry Parkes: British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1865-1885

Robert Morton

A Life of Sir Harry Parkes: British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1865-1885

Robert Morton

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Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain's relations with the Far East from the start of his working life at fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. Orphaned at the age of five, he went to China on his own as a child and worked his way to the top. ...

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