Description: Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer, Alfred a Knopf, 9th. Printing 1924. An Englishman returns from a long sea voyage with a Chinese wife. In Bristol, England in the early 1800's, this causes a great scandal. Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric ship masters, charming girls, and an aristocratic Manchu woman in carmine and jades and crusted gold. There is a drama as secret and poisonous as opium, lovely old gardens with lilac trees and green lattices, and elm-shaded streets ending at the harbor with the brigs unloading ivory from Africa and the ships crowding on their topsails for Canton. It is a romantic novel-and yet true-rather than a study of drab manners; there is no purpose in it other than the pleasure to be found in the spectacle of life supported by high courage and made beautiful by women in peacock shawls.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Pocket Books
Region: North America
Author: Joseph Hergesheimer
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Novels
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1924
Original/Facsimile: Original
