The Empress Lettes

By Linda Rogers

In a series of letters written while on board the Empress of Asia, en route from Victoria to Shanghai, Poppy von Stronheim Mandeville explains the secret history of her family to her daughter,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896951805
• ISBN13: 9781896951805
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cormorant Books
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Canadian storytelling at its finest

I read this book two years ago and have since bought five more editions; it's a great story filled with mystery, scandal, madness. . . but also a piece of exciting Canadian history that helps you understand life in BC during the tumultuous times of the opium trade and prohibition. Ms Rogers' prose is tight and compelling. . . her story fascinating . . . and the richness she paints Victoria, Canada with is unmatched. If you'd like to be swept into an historical fiction and glimpse into the lives of BC's founding families-- as well as those of the Chinese immigrants so integral to Victoria's development-- I highly recommend this most intriguing of tales.