Emily Hahn

Biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan, four-times married, with a character that was willful, mysticism-loving, and bohemian. She is personally best known for her time in Taos, New Mexico and for her relations with D. H. Lawrence, his wife Frieda, and her last husband, Tony Luhan. She was a copious writer.

An ace reporter, who knows Africa not from one hasty look but from many visits dating from 1962 back to the early thirties, gives her personal, eye-witness account of what is going on in Africa today. She pays particular attention to the problems arising out of emergent nationalism, as described by the people she talked with, traveled with, and lived with -- people of diverse races, nationalities, and points of view. The result is a book full of original comment and diverse people, from leaders like Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya, to white civil servants and farmers who are being crowded out by "Africanization."

"A history of China from the Opium War, which ended in 1842, to Mao Tse-tung's establishment of the People's Republic in 1949."--From book jacket.