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From Wuhan, the great tri-city metropolis of Central China in the Yangtze River valley, they had gone by overnight train to Fancheng in the rich agricultural country of Hupei Province. Fancheng is three hundred miles up the Han River, as Dad describes it from the days when he used to travel on the big sailing junks, she said.

Production Assistant and catwalker on Harry and Tonto.

Less successful are the flotsam-y parts of the book — the arbitrary releases about Ebbesmeyer’s career struggles or the detailings of one too many garbage finds.