Written from memory on the voyage home from Hong Kong in 1844, with three restless children on board, this is a merchant’s account of two decades of trading in the East. Davidson describes Java under the Dutch, the early years of Singapore, Malacca and Penang, the China trade, and New South Wales with its settlers and Aboriginal people.
A candid first-hand record of commerce and colonial life in early nineteenth-century Asia and Australia. Download the free EPUB.