Book Details
Title: High Road to China
Author: Jon Cleary
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Book Club Associates
Year: 1977
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 276
Dimensions: L 21.5cmxW13.5cm x D3cm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Dust Jacket is in good condition and intact. Some minor shelf wear to edges/ends/corners with some mild wrinkling and rubbing. A couple of incidental marks and mild scuffing. There are a couple of creases to the flaps. The hardcover underneath the hardcover is well preserved with green boards. The boards have some wear to ends to spine including some crushing. Bumping to corners. Embossing on spine is intact.
Inside:
Binding is firm and intact. Pages are generally clean with occasional marks/creases, overall in good shape. Two of the blank end-pages seem to be adhnered together in some way (we haven't forced them apart to avoid damage). This doesn't impact reading at all. When the book is closed, a couple of marks/spots are visible.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In 1920 Eve Tozer, the attractive daughter of an American tycoon with huge trading interests in China, disembarked from her P&O liner at Tilbury and checked in at the Savoy. Hardly had the page carried the bags to her suite before a mysterious Oriental was announced. Her father, whom she had left safe and sound in Shanghai, had been kidnapped by a warlord. The ransom demanded was a priceless statuette that Eve had brought with her. The closing date for acceptance was only eighteen days off. Even the fastest liner sailing on the next tide could not now reach China in time. The only hope - and that a thin one - was to fly.
How, in those days before airlines and airports, Eve found a couple of ex-RFC pilots on their uppers, how they bought and equipped three Bristol two-seaters (Eve herself was a qualified pilot), how they evaded trouble in France and ran into it in Germany, acquiring on the way the assistance of a one-time member of von Richthofen's Circus who had actually fought against Eve's companions is only part of the opening section of Jon Cleary's exciting tale. Historical events - notably the Greco-Turkish war - and historical personages, Mustafa Kemal and Mao Tse Tung, impinge on the narrative. Wild, strange characters are met in the Balkans, Waziristan and an Indian princely state. And all the while Bradley Tozer, in China, finds himself fascinated by, even liking his captors, while he waits for the blade to fall on his neck.
This is as fast-moving a story as Jon Cleary has ever told. At the same time the reader is taken into a world gone forever yet still within living memory. High Road to China is an adventure story in the high tradition, told with its author's characteristic sense of pace and humour."
Book Details
Title: High Road to China
Author: Jon Cleary
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Book Club Associates
Year: 1977
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 276
Dimensions: L 21.5cmxW13.5cm x D3cm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Dust Jacket is in good condition and intact. Some minor shelf wear to edges/ends/corners with some mild wrinkling and rubbing. A couple of incidental marks and mild scuffing. There are a couple of creases to the flaps. The hardcover underneath the hardcover is well preserved with green boards. The boards have some wear to ends to spine including some crushing. Bumping to corners. Embossing on spine is intact.
Inside:
Binding is firm and intact. Pages are generally clean with occasional marks/creases, overall in good shape. Two of the blank end-pages seem to be adhnered together in some way (we haven't forced them apart to avoid damage). This doesn't impact reading at all. When the book is closed, a couple of marks/spots are visible.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In 1920 Eve Tozer, the attractive daughter of an American tycoon with huge trading interests in China, disembarked from her P&O liner at Tilbury and checked in at the Savoy. Hardly had the page carried the bags to her suite before a mysterious Oriental was announced. Her father, whom she had left safe and sound in Shanghai, had been kidnapped by a warlord. The ransom demanded was a priceless statuette that Eve had brought with her. The closing date for acceptance was only eighteen days off. Even the fastest liner sailing on the next tide could not now reach China in time. The only hope - and that a thin one - was to fly.
How, in those days before airlines and airports, Eve found a couple of ex-RFC pilots on their uppers, how they bought and equipped three Bristol two-seaters (Eve herself was a qualified pilot), how they evaded trouble in France and ran into it in Germany, acquiring on the way the assistance of a one-time member of von Richthofen's Circus who had actually fought against Eve's companions is only part of the opening section of Jon Cleary's exciting tale. Historical events - notably the Greco-Turkish war - and historical personages, Mustafa Kemal and Mao Tse Tung, impinge on the narrative. Wild, strange characters are met in the Balkans, Waziristan and an Indian princely state. And all the while Bradley Tozer, in China, finds himself fascinated by, even liking his captors, while he waits for the blade to fall on his neck.
This is as fast-moving a story as Jon Cleary has ever told. At the same time the reader is taken into a world gone forever yet still within living memory. High Road to China is an adventure story in the high tradition, told with its author's characteristic sense of pace and humour."
