James Clavell: Tai-Pan

Southern China, 1840–1841. European traders and adventurers have begun to penetrate China for the first time—a land of fabulous wealth, full of dangers and mysteries. These men paid with their lives for weakness, indecision, and ignorance of Eastern customs. Amidst this, the Englishman Dirk Struan sets himself the goal of turning the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable bastion of British power and rising to the pinnacle of authority, becoming the supreme master—the Tai-Pan.

Author: James Clavell

Translator: E. Kuprin

Pages: 832 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 215x147x37 mm

Series: Foreign Literature. Big Books