How We Got Into Pekin
Author : Robert James Leslie M'Ghee
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 1862
Category : British
ISBN :
Author : Robert James Leslie M'Ghee
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 1862
Category : British
ISBN :
Author : Robert James Leslie McGhee
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 1862
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1101580380
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author : Jim Conover
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Child molesters
ISBN :
Slayer of Innocence is about the investigation of a predator pedophile serial killer who used the Midwest and California as a killing field from 1972 until he was stopped in 1979 by a handful of dedicated law enforcement officers. It is believed that he was responsible for the abductions and murders of more than 16 young boys. This book details the investigation of this killer of children by those officers. It also has many tips on how to reduce the chances of your child being abducted.
Author : Robert James Leslie M'Ghee
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 1862
Category : British
ISBN :
Author : Robert James Leslie McGhee
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 1862
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0802779123
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
Author : Alexander Wylly Habersham
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1878
Category : East Asia
ISBN :
Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Commercial statistics
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Author : United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Commercial statistics
ISBN :