This is the tale of how England came to be in the ninth and tenth centuries, when King Alfred the Great, his son, and his grandson drove out the Danish Vikings who had controlled three of England’s four kingdoms and invaded the country. Some men are born content to be second-best.” ⥥ Read More Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. “If you smile when you lose, then you win in life.” “I’ll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!” They believe anything if you tell them right way.” Swimming only prolongs the inevitable-if the sea wants you and your time has come.” “If you’re a sailor, best not know how to swim. This is the tale of his struggle to make his dynasty and himself the uncontested rulers of the Orient. He is also a great manipulator of men, a pirate, and an opium smuggler. The tale of Dirk Struan, the Tai-Pan of the most powerful trading corporation in the Far East, is told in the 1840s during the volatile times surrounding Hong Kong’s foundation. The second volume of Clavell’s Asian Saga is this one. In his 1966 book Tai-Pan, James Clavell tells the story of American and European traders who settled in Hong Kong in 1842 after the First Opium War.
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