Tai-Pan: a Novel of Hong Kong. [1841].
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0440184622
ISBN 13
9780440184621
Category
Classics - Z / T - JH/HS
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Publication Year
1984
Publisher
Pages
734
Subject
F Cla
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Description
Packed with action...gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder ...fresh and vigorous...a rousing roistering giant of a novel...Blood and Guts Fiction
It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler…Tai-Pan!
It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler…Tai-Pan!
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