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ONE'S COMPANY--A Journey to China
1937Best.-Nr. 34560London: Jonathan Cape 1937. First Edition later impression. Illustrated throughout with photographs by the author and with a folding map lined in colour. 8vo publisher's original green cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in red-orange on the spine and upper cover. 319 pp. A fine copy with light rubbing to the orange on the spine panel. A PLEASING WORK ON TRAVEL IN CHINA JUST AS THE SECOND WORLD WAR WAS BREAKING OUT. The writer has a good way with words the reading is delightful. Chapters include the long journey to China passing through Russia traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway travels in Inner and Outer Mongolia Jehol and then a significant section on Red China Hammer and Sickle the Holy Mountain Three Million Men at Arms and a number of other chapters. These are early views of a China that was changing rapidly. The book went through many printings and proved a very popular work in its time. Jonathan Cape hardcover
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