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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
515 pages : map ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374174224 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0374174229 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations