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No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century
No Hurry to Get Home The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century
Author: Emily Hahn
Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai, bore the child of th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781580050456
ISBN-10: 158005045X
Publication Date: 11/2000
Pages: 312
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Publisher: Seal Press (WA)
Book Type: Paperback
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Please. This woman did EVERYTHING, when women weren't "allowed" to do ANYTHING. The quotation on the back says "Though I had always wanted to be an opium addicit, I can't claim that as the reason I went to China."

Really fascinating memoir.
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