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Orion Publishing Co, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
McCLURE: The China Years - with - Years of Challenge - Biography by Scott, Munro (re: Robert McClure) - 1979
by Scott, Munro (re: Robert McClure)
McCLURE: The China Years - with - Years of Challenge - Biography
by Scott, Munro (re: Robert McClure)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books, 1979. (xii, viii) 409, 295 pp. Trade paperback format. Both books have light edge and corner wear with uncreased spine; both have a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. The China Years is illustrated with maps. The Contents are: THE CHINA YEARS: First Decade; American Interlude; Return to China; Life with Father; The Higher Education of Bob McClure; The Intern; Loa Ming-yuan; Weihwei; Hwaiking and the Path to Chinghua; News from Home; Religious Background; The Tent; Loa Ming-yuan and the Warlord of Hwaiking; Moment of Truth; Wedding Bells; Exodus; Taiwan the Beautiful; Assault on Edinburgh; Return to Hwaiking; Loving Lotus and Others; The Hwaiking Rural Medical System; Quicksand; Times of a Red Cross Man; Number One Hankow Lady; On Tour; The Burma Road with a Bishop; Trucking Alone; Oh Canada; The China Convoy; Precious Mountain; Raid on Chengchow; General Ming-yuan McCurdle; The Return of Hankey; The City of Jade and (a=r+p); Plague Valley; General McCurdle and the Relief of Honan; Requiem for Hwaiking; and The Last China Year of Bob McClure; followed by: McClure - China Chronological Table. YEARS OF CHALLENGE: 108 Strathallan; Doctor at Home; Egypt; Among the Philistines; From Catastrophe to McClure; Rabbits; Beginnings; Behind the Veil; In the Name of God Almighty; Crisis at Home; Allah Is Great; Old Jerusalem; Rebel in a Foxhole; India; Whirlwind in Ratlam; The Canadian Connection; The Whole Man; Dr William McClure; The Prisoner; Amy; Dada McClure; The Bureaucrats; With Knife and Tampon; The Witness; Through Parsee Eyes; Activities of a Soap Salesman; Surgeon in Governmentland; Period of Paradox; Mahag Rog; The Homestretch; We Are Not Alone; Don't Blame God; We Deplore...; Dear Moderator; McClure's Law; Up the Creek with Ah Tong; The Footsteps Falter; ...and Again; and The Journey Resumes; followed by: McClure Chronological Table 1948 - 1978.. First Printing - First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Book.
- Bookseller W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
- Format/Binding Paperback
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Edition First Printing - First Thus
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Place of Publication Markham, Ontario
- Date Published 1979
- Keywords robert mcclure; boxer rebellion; china; chinese; disease; plague; virus; communist; nationalist; japan; japanese; mackenzie king;
- Size 12mo