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Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense
of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she
crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin
geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the
Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in
Shanghai, bore the child of the head of the British Secret Service
before World War II, and finally returned to New York to live and
write in Greenwich Village. In this memoir, first published as
essays in The New Yorker, Hahn writes vividly and amusingly about
the people and places she came to know and love - with an eye for
the curious and a heart for the exotic.
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