Angel, Edmund - Far Fortress

Robert Hayle, 1958. Hardcover. 222p Formosa in the seventeenth century was a stronghold of the West on the flank of revolutionary China, The Dutch, already masters of Java, looked from their chain of Formosan forts toward the rich provinces of the Chinese mainland. How the Dutch dream vanished in bungling, cowardice and pettiness is the subject of the story. In writing it as a novel I have made no changes in the main facts...... The book is ex library with evidence including a blind stamp on the rear cloth board but is generally clean and tight. Uncommon. See scans and email for more. . Good

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