The Sand Pebbles
Subtitle: a novel.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 597
Subjects: Americans -- China -- Fiction; United States -- History, Naval -- 20th century -- Fiction; China -- History -- 1912-1937 -- Fiction; Yangtze River (China) -- Fiction
Description: For years the U.S. Navy gunboat San Pablo has been patrolling a tributary of the Yangtze River in China protecting American missionaries and businessmen. Her crew has grown soft and lazy. Then the great Chinese Revolution of the 1920's breaks out. This is the story of the crew, particulary Jake Holman, as they face the precarious situation and make agonizing decisions.