Diverse Tai-Pan: Der zweite Roman der Asian Saga 0340750693

Author: James Clavell Targeted Group: Teens & Young Adults Format: Paperback Book Origin: United Kingdom Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division

'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday Telegraph Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient. 'Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment' New York Times

'Intensely readable and exciting' Sunday Telegraph Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient. 'Packed with action . . . gaudy and flamboyant with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder . . . grand entertainment' New York Times

In den turbulenten Tagen der Gründung Hongkongs in den 1840er Jahren erzählt dieses Buch die Geschichte von Dirk Struan, dem Herrscher, dem Tai-Pan, der mächtigsten Handelsgesellschaft im Fernen Osten. Es schildert seinen Kampf, sich und seine Dynastie als die unbestrittenen Meister des Orients zu etablieren.