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Trade wind / M.M. Kaye.
It's the story of handsome Hero Athena Hollis, a wealthy New England orphan , who comes to 1859 Zanzibar determined to put an end to the slave-trade centered there. But on the seas to Zanzibar (where Hero's Uncle Nat is American Consul), a storm dashes Hero from her ship to that of scandalous Rory Frost, gun-runner and slaver. Steaming with fury at Rory's pinpricking of everything she holds dear, Hero is finally delivered to Zanzibar, where she joins in a plot (with the best of motives) to oust Mujid, the present Sultan, in favor of Yabid Bargash, his brother. This results in an armed rebellion, no end of trouble for the foreign consulates, and innumerable deaths. Meanwhile, Hero blunders on in other directions too, agreeing to marry Uncle Nat's no-good step-son Clayton
Record details
- ISBN: 0312812264
- ISBN: 9780312812263
- Physical Description: 553 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1981.
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| Subject: | Slave trade > Fiction. Zanzibar > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
