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NEW LANDS, LOVES LOST, HISTORIES MADE

The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai, and, on the other side of the law, brings about the overthrow of the Shogun.

Yet beneath Glover's astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart. His love affair with a courtesan - a woman who, unknown to him, would bear him the son for which he had always longed - would form a tragedy so dramatic as to be immortalised in the stories behind Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon.

The Pure Land relives in fiction the arc of Glover's true-life rise and fall, and forges a hundred-year saga that culminates in the annihilation of Nagasaki in 1945. The novel gracefully spans the feudal and the atomic ages, East and West, global history and private passion. Alan Spence has produced a modern epic, at once a rattling good adventure, a heart-wrenching love story and a journey of the spirit.
 
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June 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1841959596Title: The Pure Land (Paperback)
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 1-84195-959-6 / 9781841959597 (UK edition)
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June 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 184195960XTitle: Pure Land, The
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 1-84195-960-X / 9781841959603 (UK edition)
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February 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0753177765Title: The Pure Land
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 0-7531-7776-5 / 978-0-7531-7776-1 (UK edition)
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August 2006 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1841958557Title: The Pure Land
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 1-84195-855-7 / 9781841958552 (UK edition)
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November 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1841958824Title: The Pure Land
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 1-84195-882-4 / 9781841958828 (UK edition)
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October 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0753177773Title: The Pure Land (Isis General Fiction)
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 0-7531-7777-3 / 978-0-7531-7777-8 (UK edition)
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August 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1841958565Title: Pure Land, The
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 1-84195-856-5 / 9781841958569 (UK edition)
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January 2007 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0753126575Title: The Pure Land
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 0-7531-2657-5 / 978-0-7531-2657-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: ISIS Publishing
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January 2007 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 075313683XTitle: The Pure Land
Author(s): Alan Spence
ISBN: 0-7531-3683-X / 978-0-7531-3683-6 (UK edition)
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January 2007 : Unknown
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