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

Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse

Hugh Trevor-Roper

391 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Hermit of Peking is one of the most remarkable pieces of literary detection of recent years.It all began when Hugh Trevor-Roper acquired the voluminous memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, uo till then known only as a distinguished Chinese scholar who...

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