Description
Canada: Lester & Orpen Dennis, 1987 (1986). Large ehavy 8vo in hardcover with slightly worn dustjacket. 593 pages. Overall a clean and well preserved copy
First Canadian edition of the Prize Winning novel set during the first Opium War and the founding of the British settlement at Hong Kong. Timothy Mo takes his time letting us get to know Gideon Chase and Walter Eastman and a large cast of traders, artists, debutantes and warriors who shared a cocooned existence in the trading enclaves of Canton, Macao and Hong Kong in the late 1830s and early 1840s
