Tai-pan /
Clavell James 1921-1994
Tai-pan / James Clavell - Canada : James Clavell, 1966 - 732 pages : 18 cm
O
"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!"--P. [4] of cover.
estimates, Lexiles
PS3553.L365
813
Tai-pan / James Clavell - Canada : James Clavell, 1966 - 732 pages : 18 cm
O
"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!"--P. [4] of cover.
estimates, Lexiles
PS3553.L365
813