This is the true story of Chiang Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for the "Silent Traveller" seriesustories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan, and Australiauall written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and enlightening literary style. This biography is more than a recounting of extraordinary accomplishments. Da Zheng uncovers Yee's encounters with racial exclusion and immigration laws, displacement, exile, and the pain and losses he endured hidden behind a ...
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This is the true story of Chiang Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for the "Silent Traveller" seriesustories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan, and Australiauall written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and enlightening literary style. This biography is more than a recounting of extraordinary accomplishments. Da Zheng uncovers Yee's encounters with racial exclusion and immigration laws, displacement, exile, and the pain and losses he endured hidden behind a popular public image.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo., 314pp. Sharp First Edition, with no other printings listed. Bound in maroon cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a tiny nick in the paper of the front paste-down. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket, is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "for Ron Janoff, also an admirer of Chiang Yee, Da Zheng". Ron Janoff is a noted poet and former professor at NYU. A gorgeous collectable copy of an uncommon title and very scarce signed.
