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041			_aeng
080			_a82-32 _bALL
100			_aCharles Allen
245			_aTales from the south china seas
260			_bAbacus _c1994
300			_a319p.
520			_aThis work chronicles the adventures of the last generation of British men and women who went East to seek their fortunes. Drawn into the colonial territories scattered around the South China Sea, they found themselves in an exotic, intoxicating world. It was a land of rickshaws and shanghai jars, sampans and Straits Steamers, set against a background of palm-fringed beaches and tropical rain-forests. But it was also a world of conflicting beliefs and many races, where the overlapping of widely differing moral standards and viewpoints created a heady and dangerous atmosphere.
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK
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