I Sailed with Chinese Pirates

by Aleko Lilius

Overview

It is 1930 and piracy is rampant on the South China seas. Murderous bands of cutthroats roam the Pearl River Delta and coastal shipping routes, an ever-present menace to the trade of Hong Kong and beyond. Globetrotting journalist Aleko E. Lilius sets out to infiltrate these mysterious pirate gangs, and eats, sleeps and of course sails with them, delivering a sensational, rollicking tale of adventure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789881815446
Publisher:	Earnshaw Books Ltd
Publication date:	03/02/2022
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Aleko E. Lilius was a Russian journalist, a writer, and an adventurer. He is the author of Turbulent Tangiers. Paul French is a Shanghai-based editor, writer, and analyst. He is the author of Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand, North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula, and Through the Looking Glass and the coauthor of Fat China and Oil and Water.

Editorial Reviews

Lilius's adventures remain as thrilling today as they no doubt were to readers of the time. --Meng-yun Wang, Time Out Beijing

Lilius's forgotten classic reads as boldly and bloodily as a Chinese Treasure Island. What is perhaps most remarkable about this extraordinary piece of journalism is that the writer lived to tell the tale. --Adam Williams, author, The Dragon's Tail

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