Destination Peking
by
Paul French
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9887963968
ISBN-13
9789887963967
Publisher
Blacksmith Books
Imprint
Blacksmith Books
Country of Manufacture
HK
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 10th, 2021
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
442 grams
Dimensions
14.10 x 21.40 x 2.10 cms
Ksh 2,550.00
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New York Times bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking, City of Devils, Destination Shanghai) returns to the Chinese capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century. From the ultra-wealthy Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton and her husband the Prince Mdivani, to the poor American girl Mona Monteith, who worked in the city as a prostitute; from socialite Wallis Simpson and novelist JP Marquand, who held court on the rooftop of the Grand Hôtel de Pékin, to Hollywood screenwriter Harry Hervey, who sought inspiration walking atop the Tartar Wall; from Edgar and Helen Foster Snow Peking''s It'' couple of 1935 to Martha Sawyers, who did so much to aid China against Japan in World War II; Destination Peking brings a lost pre-communist era back to life.
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