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THE MAN WHO KOW-TOWED: A Biographical Novel Based on the Life of Isaac Titsingh, Holland's Eighteenth-Century Merchant-Scholar in Asia
Historical Fiction by Mary Camper-Titsingh
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1. Holland
- The Letter
- The Visitors
- 2. The Voyage
- Sail Ahoy!
- The Storm and the Doldrums
- Toward the Cape of Good Hope
- The Indian Ocean
- 3. East Indies
- Batavia: "Queen of the East"
- Hendrina Alting in Blue
- The Jubilee 1769
- Buitenzorg
- The Kraton
- Batavia 1771 to 1778
- 4. Japan
- Dejima, Japan's Only Window to Europe
- Komojin - The Red-haired Barbarians
- Reports from Europe
- The Rangakusha
- The Lantern Festival
- The Sunday Dinner Party
- VOC Chief in Japan
- Ukine, Floating Sound
- The Annual Tribute Journey to the Shogun's Court
- The Audience at the Shogun's Court
- Yoshiwara - the Pleasure Quarter of Edo
- Noble Friends on Dejima
- 5. Batavia
- Return to Batavia
- 6. Japan
- The Second Term as Chief Merchant in Japan
- The Second Audience with Japan's Shogun
- The Secret Diary
- 7. Batavia
- Amaril
- 8. Another Voyage
- Ceremonies of Death
- 9. Batavia
- Where is Amaril?
- The Council of the Indies
- 10. India
- Arrival in India
- The Baby
- Daily Life at Chinsura
- Up the Sacred Ganges River
- The Nawab of Bengal
- The Tiger Hunt
- Sophie
- The Monsoon
- Lord Cornwallis
- Diseases and Delights
- Bengal - Head to Head with the English
- The End of the VOC
- 11. Batavia
- Back to Batavia
- Lord Macartney's Visit to Batavia
- Dutch Ambassador to China
- 12. China
- Canton, China
- The Hoppo's Visit
- Ch'ang-lin, the Viceroy of Guangdong Province
- A forced March to Peking
- Peking, the Capital of China
- Au Audience with the Son of Heaven
- The Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace
- The Last Kow-tow
- Return to Canton
- Troubles
- 13. Homeward Bound
- A Diffficult Voyage
- 14. England
- At Home in London
- Bath Spa 1797
- Fellow of the Royal Society - FRS
- Sir Joseph Banks
- A Loss
- 15. Home
- A Family Reunion
- Amsterdam
- 16. Paris
- Happy Reunions in Paris
- At Home in Paris
- A Short Peace
- Willem
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