Typhoon

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Instead, it’s the fate of the countless “Chinamen tween-decks”, a cargo of migrant workers—each with his small wooden box of silver saved from hard labor—hoping to get home safely to their Motherland in FoKien. The bottom corners are lightly bumped and there is a slight dent on the fore edge of the front board.

Choose from Termly resources news for Teachers and Librarians or Holiday reading news for Young Readers and their families.Octavo, 23 volumes bound in full crushed crimson levant morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt banes, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbons bound in.

Charles Cumming is sometimes billed as John Le Carre's successor, though any posters in the latter’s Cold War thrillers no doubt toe the party line and are torn by the wind funnelled down streets next to the Berlin Wall.

He glanced back just in time to see Bo’s sledgehammer explode the last jiangshi’s head like a melon, splattering flesh and bone against the back wall. This UK first impression of the first edition is the correct Cagle's binding "B" (only two or three copies of binding "A" are know to exist). Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903. Moreover, for the parts of the book that I'm familiar with, it's honest and true, no artistic license, no embellishment, it's just genuinely how it happened, from the flights in the Middle East to the stories on the ground. Typhoon is a collection of four short stories: "Typhoon," "Amy Foster," "Falk: A Reminiscence," and "To-Morrow.

Zhu turned away from his team and squeezed his eyes shut, murmuring a goodbye to his family and apologizing for not being here when they needed him. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Very good in dark slate-grey cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt titles in a life-buoy design entitled S.

A near fine copy in blue cloth boards with gilt life preserver to the front panel with some minor wear to the extremities and in a quarter leather slipcase with cloth chemise.Partly, that's because I'd recently read another novel (Palace Council) that's fairly heavy with historical detail. In Typhoon, Sutton explores the themes of leadership, the strains on family life, the normalisation of extreme violence and the harrowing effects of operations. A xiàngqí board sat on a small bench next to the bed, its pieces set up and ready for a chess game that would never happen.