Portrays the author's childhood and her family's life in Egypt in the years before World War I

A Late Beginner

Napier, Priscilla

David&Charles

Late Beginner

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Walker

The Sword Dance, The: Lady Sarah Lennox and the Napiers

The sword dance: Lady Sarah Lennox and the Napiers

Joseph

I Have Sind: Charles Napier in India, 1841-44

Michael Russell Publishing

'A distant and perilous empire' an ex Governor-General, Ellenborough, described British India in 1845. Letters took three months to go to and from the home Government; and plenty could happen in three months. Though disease killed more Britons than did war, the peril of mutiny was real. The East India Company that still ruled India had fallen from its earlier splendours and seemed chiefly concerned with its dividends, maintaining these by what Charles Napier (never mealy-mouthed) called 'a dirty parsimonious defrauding of the sepoy'. He was not the only one to warn the authorities of impending mutiny - Richard Burton warned urgently, Brigadier Hearsey, Colonel Colin Campbell, Major Hugh Troup warned, and a host of others could see what was coming unless the system were changed. This is the story of one man's efforts to change it, largely unavailing; but many more of those larger-than-life figures cross the landscape of the Raj - John Jacob, Richard Burton, the Lawrences, Havelock, Hardinge, John Nicholson and James Outram. From home are heard the voices of Wellington, Peel, Ripon, Shaftesbury, Thackeray, and Charles's historian brother, William Napier - the noise of party politics often several bars behind the music. This book tells of the Hill campaign that sparked off the poem 'The Red Thread of Honour', of the battles of the Punjab, of the vital twelve years that led up to the terrible disaster of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and its aftermath, which not all the good government of the next ninety years could wholly efface from either British or Indian consciousness.

Raven Castle: Charles Napier in India 1844-1851

Michael Russell Publishing Ltd

xviii 237p hardback, dustjacket in excellent condition, a bright copy, clean pages, firm, like new

Coming Home from Sea: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The Erskine Press

This delightfully written book tells the story of William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier of Merchiston, who was sent to China in 1834, not to stop the opium smuggling (by which all local officials profited hugely), but to seek a settlement between the British sea-traders and the Cantonese authorities. He was at once seen by the Chinese authorities as a dangerous spy - a 'Barbarian Eye'. Although his attempts to find an agreement were unsuccessful, Lord Napier noticed a rocky island occupied by only a few fishermen's families, and guarding one of the world's finest harbours. Why not arrange to trade from here, rather than up river at Canton, where ships could be boxed in at whim? The island was called Hong Kong. Based largely upon Lord Napier's letters and journals, the book gives an admirable insight into the story of Western contacts over the centuries with China, as well as life in England and Scotland in the early 19th century.

BARBARIAN EYE: Lord Napier in China, 1834 - the Prelude to Hong Kong

Business & Money

International

Brassey's UK

Portrays the author's childhood and her family's life in Egypt in the years before World War I

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