Dirk Struan came up onto the quarterdeck of the flagship H.M.S. Vengeance, and strode for the gangway.
An edition of Tai-Pan (Asian Saga: Chronological Order #2)
(1966)
Tai Pan
by James Clavell
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"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.
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"Dirk Struan came up onto the quarterdeck of the flagship H.M.S. Vengeance, and strode for the gangway."
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