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A Brush with the Chinese and What Came of it: A Classic Victorian Adventure of Naval Danger, Courage, and Conflict in China
Hardcover
General Juvenile FictionHistory
ISBN13: 9781515422334
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 22
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A sudden clash on the waters near China throws a young adventurer into danger, courage, and imperial conflict. In A Brush with the Chinese and What Came of It, G. A. Henty delivers the kind of fast-moving historical adventure that made his stories popular with generations of young readers: a dramatic encounter, a dangerous setting, and a test of nerve in the midst of war, travel, and foreign danger.
Set against the background of British naval and military action in China, the story reflects Henty's familiar interest in courage under pressure, discipline, quick decision-making, and the education of character through peril. Like many of his shorter works, it combines action with historical atmosphere, giving readers a compact adventure shaped by the imperial assumptions, martial values, and global conflicts of the nineteenth century.
For readers of classic boys' adventure fiction, Victorian historical fiction, naval adventure, British Empire stories, and Henty's many tales of courage in wartime, A Brush with the Chinese and What Came of It offers a brief but energetic example of his storytelling. It is especially useful for collectors, classrooms, and readers interested in the way nineteenth-century adventure fiction presented war, empire, travel, and youthful bravery.
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