Maki hands over her son, then throws herself into the river. By the time the misunderstanding is cleared up, he has a new wife and a young daughter, but offers to take in Tomisaburo and give him a better life. Glover leaves behind an early romance and a son in Scotland his first Japanese marriage fails when a premature child dies another Japanese love, Maki, brings up his son Tomisaburo alone, thinking Glover is back in Europe.
Female characters feature little and sadly in this story. He disregards advice from the studiously neutral British not to get involved in local politics, supporting the Choshu clan that eventually leads rebel forces to overthrow the shogun and propel Japan into modernity. Ambitious, hardworking and instinctively entrepreneurial, Glover soon has his own import/export business in Nagasaki, trading tea, silk, gold and anything else he thinks will turn a profit, including weapons. Aberdeen-based Thomas Glover's youthful appetite for risk and opportunity is given full scope when he lands a job in Japan in 1859, working for traders Jardine, Mathieson & Co.
highly elegant naughtiness.Fictionalized biography of the young adventurer-turned-businessman who helped shape modern Japan and may have inspired Madame Butterfly.Scottish writer Spence's fourth work of fiction (Way To Go, 2004, etc.) is a muscular historical novel focusing on one man's contribution to Western traders' penetration of the hostile East.
This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from a master of erotic writing. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. MediaType eBook shortDescription From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review). IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages
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