00919nam a2200169   450000500170000000800410001702000230005804100080008108200160008910000200010524500290012525000110015426000250016530000180019052005290020865000120073720250716111829.0241202b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780340750698qpbk  aeng  a823.914 CLA  aClavell , James  aTAI-PAN cJames Clavell   a1st ed  aLondonbHodderc1966  a679P. :c22CM  a'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  aFiction