This work paints a portrait of a famous Victorian family, the Haggards, looking at how they epitomized the imperial Victorian lifestyle. Although Rider Haggard is the only member of the family whose fame has lasted, his six brothers and three sisters were all successful in their own way.
"…scrupulous research”… “she writes lucidly”… “I found myself wishing the book had been at least five times longer." Sarah Bradford, Daily Telegraph
“I must also add how much I like and respect your earlier Children of the Empire. There isn’t a sentence in it that doesn’t reflect deep research.” Stephen Coan, author
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From Gordon Smith’s diaries takes us from his first impressions in 1898 through his detailed observations of the inland sea and his environs, and through the Russo-Japanese war to 1907. A great number of paintings as well as mementoes and photographs are reproduced in the book so that the reader as Gordon Smith intended, may experience the kaleidoscope of old Japan. The text has been drawn from the eight volumes which gordon smith bequeathed to his family and which have lain closed for sixty years and an introduction has been provided which supplies the backgrounds to the diaries to Richard Gordon Smith, and to the events of his life.
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