Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History Collection_Time and the Prime Meridian packed full of stunning images

packed full of stunning images

traditions and myths included here traverse countries and continents and have been chosen to highlight how humans are linked through time and place

Tracks on the Ocean reveals how

Print reads: 'Let the diameter of the upper plate be 1/16 Inch more'

The Telephone box was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1924

Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History Collection_Time and the Prime Meridian packed full of stunning imagesSilk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable war and humiliation. Much about Chinas modern relationship with the West is the product of its past inter reactions, conflicts, victories and humiliations. The South China Sea was the place from where the ultimately destructive European sailing ships arrived. The Ryukyu Island chain