01108nam a2200205   450000500170000000800410001702000230005804100080008108200160008910000200010524500290012525000110015426000250016530000180019052005290020865000120073794200120074999900190076195201220078020250716111829.0241202b        |||||||| |||| 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  cENGLISH  c565962d565962  00104070aACLbACLc4Bd2010-11-28l3m1o823.914 CLAp361038r2026-03-15 19:16:29s2026-01-25w2024-12-02yENGLISH