An Insular Possession
by Mo, Timothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701130784
- ISBN 13
- 9780701130787
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, London, 1986. third Impression. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1.0 kg; 593 pp. illustrated endpapers (map) and dustwrapper. Novel set during the Opium Wars. Slight browning of book edges. Set in China in the 1830s, it follows the fortunes of 2 Americans, Walter Eastman and Gideon Chase, who, when they are fired from the East India Company, establish a irreverent weekly newspaper. From this newspaper they chronicle local businesses, and fashionable events. "When the 1st Opium War breaks out their lives grow increasingly dangerous and diverse: Chase is involved as an interpreter becomes an unwilling witness to battle; O'Rourke (a river pirate) and Eastman (assessed with the recently developed daguerreotype) contest the most telling means of recording suffering."  from the front fold over panel blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0701130784. ISBN/EAN: 9780701130787. Inventory No: 0207796. . 9780701130787
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0207796
- Title
- An Insular Possession
- Author
- Mo, Timothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- third Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701130784
- ISBN 13
- 9780701130787
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Opium Trade, China Fiction; Unbranded ISBN: 0701130784 EAN: 9780701130787 Mo, Timothy An Insular Possession
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About the Seller
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