Emily Hahn's No Hurry to Get Home PDF

By Emily Hahn

Originally released in 1970, lower than the title Times and Places, this publication is a set of twenty-three of her articles from the New Yorker, released among 1937 and 1970. good reviewed upon first book, the booklet was once re-published less than the present name in 2000 with a foreword through Sheila McGrath, an established colleague of hers at the New Yorker, and an advent via Ken Cuthbertson, writer of Nobody stated to not cross: The existence, Loves and Adventures of Emily Hahn. one of many items within the publication begins with the road, “Though I had constantly desired to be an opium addict, I can’t declare that as a this is because I went to China.” Hahn was once seized through a wanderlust that led her to discover approximately each nook of the area. She traveled solo to the Belgian Congo on the age of twenty-five. She used to be the concubine of a chinese language poet in Shanghai within the 1930s—where she did certainly turn into an opium addict for 2 years. for a few years, she spent a part of each year in manhattan urban and a part of her time dwelling along with her husband, Charles Boxer, in England. in the course of the process those twenty-three precise items, Emily Hahn supplies us a glimpse of the great diversity of her pursuits, the numerous areas on this planet she visited, and her impressive notion of the issues, huge and small, which are vital in a life.

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