00974nam a2200193 4500 20250716111829.0 241202b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780340750698 pbk eng 823.914 CLA 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 Fiction ENGLISH 565962 565962 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 4B 2010-11-28 3 1 823.914 CLA 361038 2026-03-15 19:16:29 2026-01-25 2024-12-02 ENGLISH