Tai-Pan

James Clavell

Book 2 of Asian Saga: Chronological Order

Language: English

Publisher: Random House

Published: Nov 12, 2008

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!From the Trade Paperback edition.