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040 _aAM-YeSLU
041 0 _aeng
100 1 _aClavell, James
245 1 0 _aTai-Pan :
_bThe epic novel of Hong Kong /
_cJ. Clavell.
260 _a[London] :
_bCoronet Books :
_bHodder and Stoughton,
_c1981.
300 _a702 p.
520 _a"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!"
650 0 _aHistorical fiction
999 _c869413
_d869413