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041 _aeng
082 _a823.914 CLA
100 _aClavell , James
245 _aTAI-PAN
_cJames Clavell
250 _a1st ed
260 _aLondon
_bHodder
_c1966
300 _a679P. :
_c22CM
520 _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
650 _aFiction
942 _cENGLISH
999 _c565962
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