Digital audio device (DAD) format. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. Requires earbuds and 1 AAA battery for use. Title from Playaway label. Release date supplied by publisher. "Playaway. Audiobooks. Pre-loaded and portable."--Container. Previously released by Brilliance Audio, p2008. Read by Phil Gigante.
Summary:
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
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