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A riveting account of the watershed moment in America's dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China's Communist rebels--their soldiers treated...
It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the ugly pariah dogs roam the streets. Geoffrey Firmin, HM ex-consul, is drowning himself in liquor...
"Long before the likes of Paul Theroux or V.S. Naipaul, Martha Gellhorn injected travel writing with a strong personal perspective which, in this book of travel recollections, often is very funny, ironic, and insightful. Gellhorn's travels were tak..."
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