The Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse by Hugh R. Trevor-Roper, Hugh R. Trevor-Roper

The Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse

Hugh R. Trevor-Roper, Hugh R. Trevor-Roper

316 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous funny informative slow-paced
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The distinguished Oxford professor of modern history presents evidence that Chinese scholar and author Sir Edmund Backhouse, long thought to have lived as a virtual hermit in Peking, was in reality a forger, trickster, and eccentric

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