Tai-Pan - James Clavell

James Clavell

Category: Adventure

Narrator: John Lee

Tags: Adventure, Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults

Series; Asian Saga, book 2 Length: 25hrs 48min Publisher: Books on Tape (Random House), 2007, 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 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. The characters are all loosely based on actual people - as are their trading companies, AudioFile.. In the early nineteenth century, a giant of an Englishman sets out to turn the desolate, rocky island of Hong Kong into a British power and to make himself the islands ruler? the Tai Pan. So begins James Clavells sequel to Shogun, his 1960s best-selling Asian saga. Books on Tape has produced a new audio book of Tai