Published by University of Hawaii Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Published by Univ of Hawaii Pr January 1993, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Published by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI, 1993
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Published by University of Hawai'i Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. As a twenty-three-year-old student in mid-1930s, pre-World War II China, John DeFrancis did not set out to make a thousand-mile camel trek across the Gobi Desert, become the prisoner of a Muslim warlord, or travel twelve hundred miles down the bandit-infested Yellow River on an inflated sheepskin raft. But these were just some of the adventures experienced by the author and his traveling companion when they tried to retrace the footsteps of Genghis Khan and ended up dodging the fighting between the Communists nearing the end of their Long March and a coalition of forces under Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government and a cabal of Muslim warlords.Informed by an extensive knowledge of Chinese history and punctuated with keen observation and gentle humor, the narrative is a personal history that can be read both as a tale of high adventure in the wild west of China and as prelude to the present in that tortured land.Westerners can no longer trace the footsteps of Genghis Khan. Many areas of China that challenged the adventuresome were declared off-limits more than a half-century ago - and the Gobi Desert and sensitive border regions are still inaccessible.
Published by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawai, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (ix) 284 pp. Beige cloth lettered in copper on the spine; yellow endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and diagrams. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some fading on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: You Can't Do That Anymore; Martin and the Ides of May; The City Returned to Civilization; By Bedbug to Larkland; The Temple of the Larks; The Swedish Connection; My Namesake - Prince Virtue; A Day in the Life of a Desert Traveler; A Desert Diner's Guide; From Grassland to Gobi; How the West Was Lost; Tales of Cameleer Zhou; Camelot Peachy and Other Bactrians; Death Row in the Desert; The Mongols that Time Passed By; The Torgut Diaspora; The River That Died of Thirst; Marco Polo's Lost City of Etsina; Prisoners of Warlord Little Big Horse; Where the Great Wall Ends; Trucking Along the Old Silk Road; By Titanic II Down China's Sorrow; and Two Flat-footed Fools. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by University of Hawaii PRess, Honolulu, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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ix, 284p., b/w illus., maps, dj (A Kolowalu book).
Published by University Of Hawaii Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
Hard cover with dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. No names or markings. Dustjacket has a few dings on the corners and spine. ; Standard Book Size.; 284 pages.
Published by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Ivory cloth, unclipped photo illus dj, all exc unread cond; 7 maps, 286 pp. b/w txt drawings by Myra Taketa. 6.5"-9.5".
Published by Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Published by Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Published by University of Hawaii Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Published by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with very good dustjacket with some shelfwear to edges. Interior text is clean, clear and bright. In the mid 1930s, the twenty-three year old author and a companion made a journey attempting to retrace the footsteps of Genghis Khan. They ended up dodging fighting between the communists nearing the end of their Long March and a coalition of forces under Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government and a cabal of Muslim warlords. ". a marvelous travelogue which vividly recreates a bygone era". A low-key memoir of a thousand-mile camel trek across the Gobi desert in pre-WW II China, tracing not too diligently the steps of Genghis Khan--and complementing Tim Severin's In Search of Genghis Khan (1992). Just out of Yale at the height of the Depression, DeFrancis (Chinese/University of Hawaii; Visible Speech, 1989, etc.--not reviewed) went to Beijing to learn Chinese in order to get a job with Standard Oil (only belatedly did he discover that Standard Oil did its hiring in New York). The project suggested to DeFrancis in China by Canadian Desmond Martin (a Genghis Khan enthusiast and this book's photographer) was to be only a summer adventure, but the experience and the author's growing interest in the Chinese language were to determine his subsequent career. In a pace as leisurely as that of the camels he and Martin rode, DeFrancis describes with beguiling candor a journey that began at Guihua, where the travelers bought camels; continued north to the Temple of the Larks, gateway to territory ruled by the Mongols; crossed a thousand miles of the Gobi (``Gobi,'' DeFrancis tells us, means ``gravel'') to Suzhou; went down the old Silk Road to Lanzhou, where, to escape escalating tensions between Communists and local warlords, the pair took a raft down the Yellow River to Baotou; and returned by train to Beijing. Along the way, DeFrancis and Martin coped with recalcitrant camels; lived on tea and millet; endured temperatures of up to 140 degrees; visited Etsina, now an abandoned city, which Genghis Khan conquered and Marco Polo admired; saw the southern end of the Great Wall; and observed the death throes of old China as Communists, Japanese, and local warlords vied for control of these sparsely populated and inhospitable regions. As much a gently humorous jaunt as a keenly observed portrait of a place and people about to be devastated by war. (Seventy-eight illustrations, seven maps).
Published by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A., 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Slightly smaller book, white cloth, very bright orange lettering on spine, yellow inside covers and adjacent end papers, 284 lightly browned pages plus brief biographical note, photos and illustrations throughout. DJ has dark yellow background, b/w photo of man on camel on front, cartoon of man thinking of an explorer writing on back. DJ and book, both As New.
Published by Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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Published by Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1993
ISBN 10: 0824814932 ISBN 13: 9780824814939
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hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.