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Paperback: 688 pages
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (1 July 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780340750698
ISBN-13: 978-0340750698
Product Dimensions: 13 x 48 x 196 cm
Product Description
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.