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Nobody said not to go : the life, loves, and adventures of Emily Hahn / Ken Cuthbertson.
Van Pelt Library PS3515.A2422 Z62 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cuthbertson, Ken.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997.
- Hahn, Emily.
- Women novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Women novelists, American.
- Women environmentalists--United States--Biography.
- Women environmentalists.
- United States.
- Women journalists--United States--Biography.
- Women journalists.
- Women travelers--United States--Biography.
- Women travelers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Faber and Faber, 1998.
- Summary:
- Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country in the 1920s dressed as a boy; 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; 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 wildlife preservation and environmentalism before her death in 1997 at the age of ninety-two.
- A feminist trailblazer before the word existed, Mickey Hahn also wrote hundreds of articles and short stories for The New Yorker from 1925 to 1995, as well as fifty books in many genres. Roger Angell wrote in her obituary in The New Yorker: "She was, in truth, something rare: a woman deeply, almost domestically, at home in the world. Driven by curiosity and energy, she went there and did that, and then wrote about it without fuss."
- Contents:
- I In the Beginning 5
- II "First, We'll Take Manhattan" 55
- III Traveling Light in the Dark Continent 89
- IV China 129
- V Hong Kong: Sunset on the Empire 195
- VI Happily Ever After? 273.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-374) and index.
- "Books by Emily Hahn, 1930-1988": pages 375-376.
- ISBN:
- 057119950X
- OCLC:
- 37935135
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