Son of fortune

By Victoria McKernan

Subjects: Seafaring life, Race relations, fiction, Commerce, Chinese americans, fiction, Chinese, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, History, Race relations

Description: In mid-1860s San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Aiden gains a hoped-for chance at a change in fortune when he wins a ship in a poker game, but soon he is involved in Peru's savage guano trade and the exploitation of its Chinese workers.