Anthony Grey - Bücher & Infos

Originaltitel: Tokyo Bay
Seiten: 416
Erschienen bei: Open Road Media
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A thrilling novel of the opening of Japan to the West, by the acclaimed author of Saigon and Peking
A fleet of smoking black ships steam past Japan’s tributary islands in July 1853, setting off panic among a people who have been sealed off from the rest of the world for over two hundred years. Commodore Matthew Perry has been sent by the US president to open Japan to American ships and trade—by force, if…

Seiten: 789
Erschienen bei: Open Road Media
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An epic saga of twentieth-century Vietnam hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the War and Peace of our age”
Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarin’s daughter he cannot forget.
Over…