Maggie Keswick

Maggie Keswick first went to China when she was 4 years old. She was educated in Shanghai and Hong Kong and, in Britain, at Oxford University and the Architectural Association, London. She was married to the architecture critic and historian Charles Jencks, with whom she made the famous conceptual garden at Portrack, near Dumfries.

The Thistle and The Jade

A fascinating miscellany of scholarship and anecdote that tells the story of Jardine, Matheson & Co., founded in Canton in 1832, which grew to become an international trading house with business interests throughout the world.

Category: General, History
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
 
Hardback    £30.00