Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon selected anecdotal stories written by British observers, this text reconstructs the events of the illegal opium trade in Canton in the 1830s and the war between Britain and China that followed. The volume is illustrated with b & w maps, prints, and photographs. Irish-born Collis (1889-1975) served for many years in the Indian Civil Service in Burma and later became a writer and critic in London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR