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Hong Kong
imperial legacy
Jardine Matheson
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opium wars
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- ISBN 9781916556171
- Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Chiselbury Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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It was the year of 1833 when Robert Gunn arrived on the China coast. Only the feeblest of defences now protected the vast and proud Chinese Empire from the ravenous greed of Western traders, and their opening wedge for conquest was the sale of forbidden opium to the native masses. This was the path that Robert Gunn chose to follow... a path that led him through a maze of violence and intrigue, lust and treachery, to a height of power beyond most men's dreams — and to the ultimate depths of personal corruption.
Here is a magnificent novel of an age of plunder—and of a fearless freebooter who raped an empire.
James Leasor was one of the bestselling British authors of the second half of the 20th Century. He wrote over 50 books including a rich variety of thrillers, historical novels, histories and biographies.
