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What happens when making a living means choosing sides in a land on the edge of revolution?
In Henry Milner Rideout’s Dragon’s Blood, a young trader’s work takes him into a China caught between old ways and change. Customs, languages and politics are new to him. Trade offers a livelihood, but upheaval makes it dangerous. He must find his way through a place where business and personal loyalty pull in different directions.
Revolution makes every choice uncertain. Allies may change sides, and a journey that seems safe can become a threat. Love adds another risk as the trader weighs whom to trust and what he owes to friends, partners and the people he meets. Rideout carries this adventure through markets, rivers and towns, with a traveller’s eye for detail.
What you’ll discover
- Trade under pressure Follow a young trader whose livelihood becomes tangled with politics and personal loyalties.
- A land in upheaval Enter a China where the tension between old ways and change shapes the adventure.
- Trust put to the test Consider what loyalty demands when friends, partners and uncertain allies pull in different directions.
- Love adds to danger Discover how love complicates the choices of a young man already facing uncertainty.
- A traveller’s eye Move through markets, rivers and towns with a storyteller who has travelled in China.
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- Revolution makes every choice risky
- Loyalty is tested by danger and love
- A storyteller who knew the setting
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La sangre del dragón
by Henry Milner Rideout · 1909
A young trader enters a China shaken by revolution, where trade, loyalty and love pull him toward dangerous choices.
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Dragon's Blood is an adventure novel by Henry Milner Rideout, an American writer who died in 1927. Rideout was best known for stories set in China, where he had travelled, and for tales of sea and distant places written for American magazines and readers.
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A young trader meets a changing land
Stories of this kind begin with a young man sent out to make his living in trade. He arrives in a place whose customs, languages and politics are new to him. Everything he knows is tested by what he finds.
China in the era this book belongs to was a country under strain. Foreign merchants lived and worked in ports and trading centres, often separate from the people around them. Rideout draws on that world of trade, rumour and unrest.
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Who wrote Dragon's Blood?
Dragon's Blood was written by Henry Milner Rideout, an American author who died in 1927. He wrote adventure fiction and short stories, many of them set in China and other far places.
What kind of book is Dragon's Blood?
It is an adventure novel built around a young trader in China. It mixes travel, danger, political unrest, loyalty and romance, in the style of early twentieth century popular fiction.
Is Dragon's Blood a true story?
It is a work of fiction. Rideout drew on his knowledge of China and its trade, but the characters and plot belong to the novel rather than to recorded history.
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