Tai-Pan |
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| Author:
| Clavell, James |
| Series title: | The Asian Saga Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-340-75069-8 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1999 |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton
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| Imprint: | Hodder Paperbacks |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $22.99 |
Book Description:
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'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday Telegraph Set 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...
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'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday Telegraph
Set 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 . . . grand entertainment' New York Times