The Voyage Of The Golden Lotus

Author : Graham Clifford
Publisher : Tideline Tales
ISBN 13 : 0473466295
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Golden Lotus written by Graham Clifford and published by Tideline Tales. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pays tribute to the tenacity and sailing skills of four young New Zealanders who sailed an epic voyage in their Chinese junk Golden Lotus in 1962. On their 8,500 mile journey from Hong Kong to New Zealand they confronted violent storms in the South China Sea, Indian Ocean and Tasman Sea. They challenged poisonous and powerful Komodo dragons on an uninhabited Indonesian island; encountered mid-ocean sharks of mean proportions; overcame the many navigational hazards of the Barrier Reef Coast of Australia. Brian Clifford, master Navigator at age 23, orchestrated every aspect of this classic adventure. Skillful celestial navigation, adventurous spirits and the raw energy of a youthful crew combined with total self reliance to win the day.

Author : Brian Clifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of the 'Golden Lotus' written by Brian Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vladimir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317792890
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond The Golden Lotus written by Vladimir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to the Chinese novel Chin P'ing Mei, this book details the lives, fates and after-fates of the wealthy businessman Hsi Men and his six wives. A brilliant story coupled with the dramatic historical background of twelfth century China make this a unique work of tremendous scholarly and humanistic value. Intriguing chapter headings include : 'Frightened by a Bad Dream', Moon Lady Sacrifices her Pearls and 'A White Eyeball looks down upon the Forlorn Little Boy; No one takes Pity on Him.

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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Lotus written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146292414X
Total Pages : 1632 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden Lotus written by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 1632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." --Pearl S. Buck A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese literature, joining the Four Great Classics: Journey to the West, The Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone), and is recognized as one of the Four Masterworks of the Ming novel. Golden Lotus tells the story of Ximen Qing, a wealthy, unscrupulous merchant who takes the beautiful and ambitious widow Pan Jinlian as his fifth wife. Jinlian is not content to accept her position and schemes to dominate her husband and improve her standing in society by using sex as her weapon. As the story unfolds, Ximen Qing embarks on a series sexual conquests and Pan Jinlian exploits her husband's lust, ultimately causing the downfall of the entire family. The story's dramatic climax vividly portrays the lengths to which ambitious people will go to gain influence. It also lays bare the rivalries within wealthy families of privilege while chronicling their rise and fall. Iconic in China, Golden Lotus has been alternately banned and lauded for centuries, all the while still avidly read as a popular page-turner. This new Tuttle edition, now available in a single unabridged volume, includes a superb introduction by Robert Hegel of Washington University, who explains the book's importance as the first novel in the Chinese tradition attributable to a single author.

Author : Graham Clifford
Publisher : Tideline Tales
ISBN 13 : 0473340070
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Smellibait Beach written by Graham Clifford and published by Tideline Tales. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-part book of 34 fishing and seascape related stories plus 5 ocean adventures gleaned from the author's 44-year career at sea as a Bay of Islands fishing and cruising skipper.

Author : Jicai Feng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three-inch Golden Lotus written by Jicai Feng and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poor girl rises to high social status in China because of her unusually small feet. When her position is threatened by reformers out to abolish foot-binding she fights them. A study in social change.

Author : Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781077372177
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Lotus - Book Three written by Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." - Pearl S. Buck

Author : H.G. Hasler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408182211
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Junk Rig written by H.G. Hasler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedic volume synthesises 25 years of research and development of this unique rig as adapted to western craft. It is a work which has been welcomed by the growing number of yachtsmen and designers throughout the world who already enjoy the benefits of junk rig or who wish to do so. Now available as an ebook for the first time, Practical Junk Rig examines the design and aerodynamic theory behind junk rigs and discusses how best to sail them. It outlines the rig in detail, the principles that underlie it, considers possible alternative shapes and arrangements and analyses performance, all assisted by a wealth of detailed line illustrations.

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208209
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Sails West written by Stephen Davies and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a travelling exhibition of Chinese items, theKeying had a troubled voyage. After quarrels on the way and a diversion to New York, culminating in a legal dispute over arrears of wages for Chinese members of the crew, it finally reached London in 1848, where it went on exhibition on the River Thames until 1853. It was then auctioned off, towed to Liverpool, and finally broken up. In this account of the ship, the crew and the voyage, Stephen Davies tells a story of missed opportunities, with an erratic course, overambitious aims, and achievements born of lucky breaks—a microcosm, in fact, of early Hong Kong and of the relations between China and the West.