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- catalog abstract "Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 192Os; 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; became an opium addict; 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 environmentalism and wildlife preservation before her death last year. Mickey Hahn also wrote hundreds of articles and short stories for The New Yorker from 1925 to 1995 and wrote fifty-two books in her lifetime, astonishing her publishers and agents by moving effortlessly from biography to humor to fiction to travel memoir to history.".
- catalog contributor b10736707.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Books by Emily Hahn, 1930-1988": p. 375-376.".
- catalog description "In the Beginning -- "First, We'll Take Manhattan" -- Traveling Light in the Dark Continent -- China -- Hong Kong: Sunset on the Empire -- Happily Ever After?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-374) and index.".
- catalog description "Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 192Os; 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; became an opium addict; 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 environmentalism and wildlife preservation before her death last year.".
- catalog description "Mickey Hahn also wrote hundreds of articles and short stories for The New Yorker from 1925 to 1995 and wrote fifty-two books in her lifetime, astonishing her publishers and agents by moving effortlessly from biography to humor to fiction to travel memoir to history.".
- catalog extent "xii, 383 p. :".
- catalog identifier "057119950X".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Faber and Faber,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.52 B 21".
- catalog subject "Environmentalists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Hahn, Emily, 1905-1997.".
- catalog subject "Journalists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS3515.A2422 Z62 1998".
- catalog subject "Travelers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women environmentalists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women journalists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women novelists, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women travelers United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "In the Beginning -- "First, We'll Take Manhattan" -- Traveling Light in the Dark Continent -- China -- Hong Kong: Sunset on the Empire -- Happily Ever After?".
- catalog title "Nobody said not to go : the life, loves, and adventures of Emily Hahn / Ken Cuthbertson.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".