James Clavell
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Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 1
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English
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"After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures...
Author
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Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 1
Language
English
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After John Blackthorne shipwrecks in Japan, he makes himself useful to a feudal lord in a power struggle with another and becomes a samurai.
"After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people,...
3) Tai-Pan
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Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 2
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English
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"Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world's largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan--Supreme Leader--of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan's rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan's. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their...
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Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 5
Language
English
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Set in Hong Kong in 1963. The Noble House is in financial trouble and the fate of Hong Kong rests on what will happen to it.
5) King rat
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Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls. Officers and enlisted men, all prisoners together, yet the old hierarchies and rivalries survive. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wile to facilitate trading with guards and locals to get needed food, supplies, even information into the camp. The imprisoned upper-class officers have never had to do things...
6) Gai-Jin
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Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 3
Language
English
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"The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House--the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age--a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire--Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies"--Amazon.com....
8) Whirlwind
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Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 6
Language
English
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Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian people rise up against the Shah. The country, once secular, is now thrown back into an orthodoxy that threatens to tear it apart. The United States and Russia go on high alert, with warships heading to the Middle East. The region becomes a powder keg, waiting to explode. Caught up in the revolution are a British helicopter company and its pilots. The oil fields of Iran...
9) Escape
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Asian saga volume 7
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English
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Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions explode and the Shah is forced to flee Iran. A British helicopter company--secretly owned by the Noble House of Hong Kong--with a fleet of helicopters registered in Iran faces bankruptcy if their copters are claimed or destroyed by the uprising. The pilots need to escape, but they've built lives in Iran, some even have families. Finnish pilot Erikki Yokkonen has married Azadeh, an Iranian woman of noble...
10) Shogun
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Series
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Litera Media Group
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Romanian
Description
Un aventurier englez îndrăzneț. Un războinic japonez invincibil. O femeie frumoasă sfâșiată între două stiluri de viață și două iubiri complet diferite. Toate într-o saga extraordinară plasată într-un timp și într-un spațiu măcinate de conflicte, pasiuni, ambiții și lupte pentru putere...
11) Shōgun
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German
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Der große historische Roman über die Einigung Japans und den Aufstieg des Shogunats - jetzt neu verfilmt als Blockbuster-Serie bei Disney+
Im Jahr 1600 strandet der englische Navigator John Blackthorne an der Küste eines Landes, das erst wenige Europäer erreicht haben: Japan.
Blackthorne bleibt nur wenig Zeit, um sich in der fremden Sprache und Kultur zurechtzufinden. Und er muss seine Vorstellungen von Loyalität, Mut und Moral hinterfragen.
Schon...
13) Shōgun: Part II
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures...
14) Shogun
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Series
Publisher
DEBOLS!LLO
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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EL ÉXITO INTERNACIONAL EN EL QUE SE BASA LA NUEVA SERIE DE DISNEY+
La clásica novela épica sobre el Japón feudal que cautivó el corazón de una cultura y la imaginación del mundo, escrita por James Clavell, autor best seller de The New York Times y maestro sin parangón de la ficción histórica.
Tras perderse en el mar, el inglés John Blackthorne despierta en un lugar que pocos europeos conocen y menos aún han visto: Japón. Inmerso en la...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Grand in scope and scale, filled with the richness and passion of two great histories coming together, Gai-jin is the long-awaited sixth novel in James Clavell's magnificent Asian Saga. Sweeping us back to the enigmatic and elusive land of his best-selling Shogun, he weaves an extraordinary tale of Japan, now newly open to gai-jin - foreigners - and teeming with contradictions as the ancient and the modern meet in a clash of cultures, of nations,...
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 5
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 5
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ian Dunross, the current tai-pan of the illustrious yet financially troubled Struan empire, is racing to undo the damage his predecessor left behind and to once again stand on stable ground. And he'll do whatever it takes--including striking a hard-fought deal with an American millionaire. But his rival, Quillan Gornt, has other plans. Suddenly caught in a dubious plot involving Soviet spies, Hong Kong's criminal underground, and the hostile takeover...
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 4
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1974, ©1962
Language
English
Description
An American corporal rules a Singapore prison camp and sells the prisoners rats for food during World War II.
Author
Series
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An Englishman sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into a bastion of British power and to make himself the supreme ruler: the Tai-Pan.
