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Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
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!"--P. [4] of cover.
2) Shogun
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 64
Language
English
Description
"After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures...
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 3
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House ... the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shōgun battling to usher his country into the modern age ... a beautiful young Frenchwoman forever torn between ambition and desire ... Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans,...
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 5
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English