Sojourners: Flowers and the Wide Sea: The Epic Story of China's Centuries-Old Relationship with Australia by Eric Rolls

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Some fading to front cover and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

Bristling with character and drama, lively incidents and the clash of civilisations, Sojourners is the story of China's centuries-old relationship with Australia. The result of twenty-five years of research, Eric Rolls magnificently written book is an epic in the tradition of The Fatal Shore.

As well as the high drama of history, Sojourners covers the important themes of gambling, a passion that the Chinese shared with European Australians, and health and sickness, particularly opium smoking and the strange story of leprosy and smallpox. The great fear of these diseases enabled governments to use them as political tools.