AFTER YOU, MARCO POLO Jean Bowie Shor 1955 SILK ROAD Venice to Maoist China Trek

Description: AFTER YOU, MARCO POLO Jean Bowie Shor 1955 SILK ROAD Venice to Maoist China Trek POB#51489 TITLE: After You, Marco Polo AUTHOR: Jean Bowie Shor PUBLISHER: New York: McGraw-Hill DATE: [c1955] EDITION: Fourth Printing Stated DESCRIPTION: ix, 294p, 21cm CONDITION NOTES: FINE/VERY GOOD. Light chipped to dust jacket edges, not price clipped, light handling and strong color on spine. Book is fresh with a bumped corner and light toning in the endpapers, otherwise clean and fresh of marks, creases, or tears. BINDING: Full coated buckram..A couple of crazy honeymooners hitch rides from Venice to Peiping and lived to tell the tale, many photos and many thanks to National Geographic Society. Even in the 1950s, Central Asia was pretty sketchy. The Shah's Persia. Remote Afghanistan. Tibet closed for conquest. China in the early 1950s was downright dangerous, and getting caught on the wrong side of competing Communist cliques was a major hazard explained in the first chapter. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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