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<dl><dd>414 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : 20 cm</dd>
<dd>Burroughs calls up successful motifs from earlier works and recombines them in a roller-coaster fashion. The work starts as a social critique of the inner city, Chicago, but quickly moves to sea. A lost city of Japanese samurai can be found on a tiny Pacific island, and this serves as the action-filled turf of Billy Byrne, a Chicago street thug. He experiences a mutiny among pirates, encounters a lost race of Samurai head-hunter degenerates, must compete with another man for the love of beautiful Barbara, and travels to Mexico where Burroughs combines social history and the traditional Western</dd>
<dd>Novel</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Science fiction, American; Science fiction, American</div>
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950</div>
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