Tai-Pan

Clavell, James

Book 2 of Asian Saga

Language: English

Publisher: Dell

Published: Jan 1, 1966

My Rating: 4
Date read: Oct 8, 2024
GR Shelf: read

Description:

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!