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The Immobile Empire by Jon Rothschild, Alain Peyrefitte

The Immobile Empire

Jon Rothschild, Alain Peyrefitte

630 pages first pub 1989 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The astonishing history of Britain's grand, ill-fated expedition to open China to Western trade, The Immobile Empire is a historical tour de force that recaptures the extraordinary experience of two worlds in collision. In 1793, a group of nearly ...

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