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Title: THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MORRISON OF CHINA
By: Peter Thompson, Robert Macklin
Format: Paperback

List price: £29.99


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ISBN 10: 1741753511
ISBN 13: 9781741753516
Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN
Pub. date: 1 January, 2007
Pages: 492
Description: George Ernest Morrison first came to public attention in his native Australia when his strong sense of courage and devotion to reporting the truth led him, at only 20 years of age, to expose the Australian Kanaka slave trade. This is the story of 'Morrison of China'.
Synopsis: 'Morrison was the first Australian to break into Fleet Street's elite corps of foreign correspondents. Everyone who followed owes him an enormous debt. He set the benchmark: courage, truthfulness and the need to be there, face to face. His amazing life, splendidly and succinctly told, is an inspiration. If Morrison has been largely forgotten, this book will change that forever.' - Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty, a history of war correspondentsThis is the compelling story of 'Chinese Morrison', who bestrode continents, helped bring down a dynasty and chronicled his times so brilliantly that he not only wrote history but changed it as well. In 1882, at the age of 19, George Ernest Morrison's strong sense of courage and devotion to reporting the truth led him to expose the Australian Kanaka slave trade. It marked the beginning of what was to be an illustrious career. In the decades that followed, Morrison achieved international fame for his work as a correspondent for the London Times in the decadent and dangerous Chinese capital of Peking, not least when he helped to organise the defence of the legations during the 55-day siege of the Boxer Uprising.Then, as adviser to the fledgling Chinese Government, he was a pivotal figure in the fall of the last Emperor and the birth of the Chinese Republic.Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin have written a powerful and gripping biography of an Australian journalist and adventurer who paused only to tell his stories and to plan his next foray among the great events and leading figures of his day.
Publication: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Returns: Returnable
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