The Dreams of Fair Women
syys 2014 · Myyjä: Hodder & Stoughton
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Hong Kong in the nineteenth century: a heady, overwhelming mixture of
worldly commercialism, moral corruption and Eastern tradition.
Into this strange and exciting world, on board the S.S. Mongolia comes
Milly Smith, daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon, destined for a marriage of
convenience to a greedy financier. But during the course of her journey
Milly has attracted the attentions of fellow passanger, the wild and dashing
pirate, Eli boggs.
Set against a turbulent historical backdrop of Hong Kong's piracy, the slave
trade and the infamous Opium War, The Dreams of Fair Women is a classic
historical adventure from the author of The Rape of the Fair Country.
worldly commercialism, moral corruption and Eastern tradition.
Into this strange and exciting world, on board the S.S. Mongolia comes
Milly Smith, daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon, destined for a marriage of
convenience to a greedy financier. But during the course of her journey
Milly has attracted the attentions of fellow passanger, the wild and dashing
pirate, Eli boggs.
Set against a turbulent historical backdrop of Hong Kong's piracy, the slave
trade and the infamous Opium War, The Dreams of Fair Women is a classic
historical adventure from the author of The Rape of the Fair Country.
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Alexander Cordell was born in Ceylon in 1914, was educated mainly in China and joined the army in 1932. After WWII, during which he served in France, he became a civil servant, spending three years in Hong Kong.
He wrote more than thirty novels including the highly acclaimed 'Mortymer Trilogy' - The Rape of the Fair Country, The Hosts of Rebecca and Song of the Earth. He died on 13 November 1997 aged eighty-three
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