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Yellow Bear or Red Dragon (Paperback, New edition)
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Discovery Miles 5 140
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Yellow Bear or Red Dragon (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R514
Discovery Miles 5 140
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In June of 1922, Marguerite Harrison, and American journalist and
spy embarked from North America on what was to be an epic journey
to Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia and Siberia. It was in Siberia
that she was arrested by the Bolsheviks, sent 4,000 kilometres to
Moscow and imprisoned there, first in the notorious Lubyanka and
later in Butrykra Prison. She was threatened with a charge of
espionage which could carry the death sentence or at a minimum, ten
years' exile in Siberia. Ultimately, the US Government interceded
and she was released. Red Bear or Yellow Dragon is one of the
finest sources on Japanese society and culture in the 1920s and
also offers a rare glimpse into life in the Asian steppes. Harrison
undertook a highly dangerous 1,400 km trip from Beijing to
Mongolia's capital, Ulan Bator, through the Great Khingan Mountains
and over the Gobi Desert to Chita in Siberia. She wrote: 'Most of
the roads I followed were bloodstained road - some grim reminders
of the World War and Revolution, others with fresh traces of blood
shed since the peace.' Marguerite undertook this arduous journey to
chronicle the peoples and politics of what she sensed as a stirring
of new movements in Asia - the eternal sphinx - that were to
severely challenge the West in the coming decades and which
continue to do up to the present age.
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