Title: Son of fortune
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.
Subjects: Commerce, Race relations, Conduct of life, Chinese, Juvenile fiction, Seafaring life, Fiction, History, Children's fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Chinese americans, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction
Places: 1829-1919, San Francisco (Calif.), California, Peru, San Francisco
Time periods: 1829-1919, 19th century