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McLEOD, John, surgeon
Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste...
London, 1818. Octavo, frontispiece and coloured aquatint plates; a good copy in contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked. Second and best edition, with numerous additions and alterations, of this famous account of the voyage of the Alceste which brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador, and specifically to negotiate the China trade, at the time a matter of dispute between China and Great Britain. McLeod, who was surgeon on the ship, describes the voyage out, the various calls in the East Indies, surveying off Korea, the visit to Okinawa, another to Manila, and the shipwreck off the coast of Sumatra and subsequent rescue from Malay pirates. This was one of the most popular travel books of its time, portraying the Far East to a much wider audience than had been reached by earlier accounts.
Borba de Moraes, p. 507; Hill, pp. 188-9.
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