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Opium Lords: The Turbulent Birth of Hong Kong

Amy McGrath

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Description:The story begins thus in the Year of Our Lord 1832:“In this fine spring of her twenty-first year, Holly Shay was about to take destiny into her own hands. She would up anchor from the port where she had always lived, and cast the ship of her life adrift with the same resolution as her forebears, those old whaling captains who, for three generations past, set sail for the open sea knowing they would not return from the Pacific Ocean for at least two or three years if at all. She would abandon this dying port where the cluster of sailing ships in the reaches of the river grew thinner every year and leave America, possibly for ever.Throughout the long-drawn out days of her father’s last illness, she knew she was heir to their restless spirits, and longed to be free. Not to go to New York under the wing of her Aunt Jean, as her Uncle Bart, executor of her father’s will, had urged, but to the place of her longing for independence. So she announced, now the predictable will had been read, that she and her brother were his sole heirs, ‘I’m going to China.’We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Opium Lords: The Turbulent Birth of Hong Kong. To get started finding Opium Lords: The Turbulent Birth of Hong Kong, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Tower House

Release: 1997

ISBN: 0958710414

Description: The story begins thus in the Year of Our Lord 1832:“In this fine spring of her twenty-first year, Holly Shay was about to take destiny into her own hands. She would up anchor from the port where she had always lived, and cast the ship of her life adrift with the same resolution as her forebears, those old whaling captains who, for three generations past, set sail for the open sea knowing they would not return from the Pacific Ocean for at least two or three years if at all. She would abandon this dying port where the cluster of sailing ships in the reaches of the river grew thinner every year and leave America, possibly for ever.Throughout the long-drawn out days of her father’s last illness, she knew she was heir to their restless spirits, and longed to be free. Not to go to New York under the wing of her Aunt Jean, as her Uncle Bart, executor of her father’s will, had urged, but to the place of her longing for independence. So she announced, now the predictable will had been read, that she and her brother were his sole heirs, ‘I’m going to China.’We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Opium Lords: The Turbulent Birth of Hong Kong. To get started finding Opium Lords: The Turbulent Birth of Hong Kong, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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