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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Paperback. NOT Ex-library. Clean pages and tight binding. Notes, Bibliography, Index. This item is in good condition. May show moderate signs of use. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
Sir Edmund Backhouse was a strange and very unappealing Englishman who lived in China for decades and lied to everyone, about everything. This is not enough to merit a 300-page book given Trevor-Roper's writing style, which lacks fluidity. There's no narrative flow during much of the book, and the rather dotty way in which it is organized does not help. In spite of the fact that the awful Backhouse should be an interesting subject, the reader's attention frequently wanders. Someone should have taken this book firmly in hand and edited it. Trevor-Roper's The Invention of Scotland was much easier to read, probably because it was edited by someone else.
