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Set in mid-nineteenth-century Japan, this saga of East/West conflicts introduces Kenjiro Mori, a handsome samurai, Elinor Mills, a passionate Englishwoman, Ryo Miyata, Kenjiro's rebellious sister, and Felix Coburn, an Englishman doomed to love women he cannot possess
Virago Travellers: The Yangtze Valley and Beyond
- 560 Seiten
- 20 Lesestunden
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond - an account of journeys in China, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo territory is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Jade. A Great and Sweeping Novel of a Distant Land
- 672 Seiten
- 24 Lesestunden
Once Alice was a missionary child... but a bloody massacre tore her from the smug sanctity of her home and transported her as a hostage to faraway Hunan province. Now she is called "Uncut Jade"... a "barbarian" fit only to be a servant in a traditional Chinese household until the patriarch of the house of Chu invites her into his bed to learn the Chinese arts of love as his teenage concubine. Never again will she view the world with a westerner's eyes- even after her "escape" and her journey to the treaty ports of the coast, through the mountains of Kweichow and the mysterious cities of Shanghai and Peking. Love awaits her in the arms of a Chinese radical independence will become her right as a businesswoman. She will achieve identity as a woman of two worlds- Jade