BOOKS - The Abalone Ukulele
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The Abalone Ukulele
Author: Roger Crossland
Year: 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 3.2 MB
Language: English
Year: 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 3.2 MB
Language: English
In this historical adventure cultures from China Korea Japan and the United States collide in 1913 over three tons of Japanese gold ingotsThree ordinary mena disgraced Korean tribute courier a bookish naval officer and a polyglot thirdclass quartermastermust foil Japanese subversion and with sub rosa assistance from Asiatic Station highjack that gold to finance a Korean insurrection Three ordinary women complicate and complement their efforts an enigmatic changsan courtesan a feisty Down East consular clerk and a clever Chinese farmgirlIt is a tale that wends through the outskirts of Peking to the Yukon River from the San Francisco waterfront to a naval landing party isolated on a Woosung battlefield from ships of the US Asiatic Fleet moored on Battleship Row to a junk on the Yangtze and from the Korean gold mines of Unsan to a coaling quay in Shanghai Soon a foreign intelligence service a revolutionary army and two Chinese triads converge on a nations ransom in gold Praise for The Abalone UkuleleA masterclass in historical fiction With painstaking research and a gift for story spinning Crossland brings to brilliant life a sprawling epic of greed gold and redemption Crosslands gift for converting historic details into character and narrative makes The Abalone Ukulele an immersive read Joseph A Williams author of Seventeen Fathoms Deep and The Sunken TreasureCrosslands tale of shenanigans greed nobility and slivers of grace propels across a geography spanning Shanghai the Klondike gold fields and San Franciscos wharves His characters are elemental with a commedia dellarte quality Clues to a mystery are sprinkled skillfully throughout keeping the reader turning the page Loretta Goldberg author of the awardwinning novel The Reversible MaskMaritime historical fiction in the tradition of Patrick OBrian Steve Robinson author of No Guts No Glory
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