S1E5 | Robert Fortune’s Wanderings in China (Part 5)

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Written By Laszlo Montgomery

In this episode, we’re going to finish off with some excerpts from Fortune’s first book. This effort by Fortune, Wanderings Through the Northern Provinces of China garnered him a lot of shine and attention. About midway into this episode, we’ll dust off RF’s second book and begin exploring his adventures from trip number two.

This trip, his second, made in the employ of the British East India Company is really the one that Fortune is most famous for. Over the next episodes, you can decide for yourself. Did Fortune’s mission constitute industrial espionage or not? However you look at it, Fortune’s second trip was filled with lots of great narratives describing mid to late 1840’s China, south of the Yangzi River.

The book we’re reading from is: Three Years Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China originally published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1847

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