Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living.
In this memoir, fir.
Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai, bore the child of the head of the British Secret Service before World War II, and finally returned to New York to live and write in Greenwich Village.
Born in St.
Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living