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Nobody said not to go : the life, loves, and adventures of Emily Hahn Cover Image Book Book

Nobody said not to go : the life, loves, and adventures of Emily Hahn

Cuthbertson, Ken. (Author).

Summary: Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 1920s; worked as a Harvey Girl in Taos, New Mexico; ran away to the Belgian Congo as a Red Cross worker during the Great Depression; was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s; became an opium addict; had an affair and an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret Service in Hong Kong just before the outbreak of World War II; was involved in underground relief work in occupied Hong Kong; and moved back to the United States and became a pioneer in the fields of environmentalism and wildlife preservation before her death last year.

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  • ISBN: 057119950X
  • ISBN: 9780571199501
  • ISBN: 0571199658
  • ISBN: 9780571199655
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Faber and Faber, 1998.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-376) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: In the Beginning -- "First, We'll Take Manhattan" -- Traveling Light in the Dark Continent -- China -- Hong Kong: Sunset on the Empire -- Happily Ever After?

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Hahn, Emily
Biographie
Genre: Biography.

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Conyers-Rockdale Library System:
      Nancy Guinn Memorial Library 		B HAHN CUT ( Send Text)
 31015000800707 BIOGRAPHY Available
Sara Hightower Regional Library:
      Rome-Floyd County Library 		813.52 092 HAHN C ( Send Text)
 33034004129219 NONFIC Available
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