A courageous leader who became the first American mandarin, Frederick Townsend Ward won crucial victories for the Emperor of China during the Taiping Rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. Carr's skills as historian and storyteller come to the fore in this thrilling account of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees.
Book Details
Format
paperback
ISBN-10
0679761284
ISBN-13
9780679761280
Publication Date
Apr 1995
Item Weight
0.85 pounds
Length
7.99 inch
Width
5.20 inch
Height
0.91 inch
First Sentence
On May 2, 1860, the city of Nanking, China-nestled between a wide bend in the Yangtze River and a commanding promontory called Purple Mountain-was alive with celebration.
