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TAI-PAN
Clavell , James
TAI-PAN James Clavell - 1st ed - London Hodder 1966 - 679P. : 22CM
'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday TelegraphSet in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient.'Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder
9780340750698
Fiction
823.914 CLA
TAI-PAN James Clavell - 1st ed - London Hodder 1966 - 679P. : 22CM
'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday TelegraphSet in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient.'Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder
9780340750698
Fiction
823.914 CLA