Season of high adventure
Subtitle: Edgar Snow in China
By: S. Bernard Thomas.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Snow, Edgar, 1905-1972.; Foreign correspondents -- China -- Biography.; Foreign correspondents -- United States -- Biography.; China -- History -- 1937-1945.
Other titles: Edgar Snow in China
Description: In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and developed close friendships with China's emerging revolutionary leaders. His 1938 classic, Red Star Over China, strongly influenced American views of the Chinese Communists and is still in print nearly sixty years later. S.

Bernard Thomas's sensitive biography of Edgar Snow emphasizes the journalist's China experience and shows how he became involved in events along with reporting them. An epilogue takes up Snow's cold war travails and his often frustrating "bridge-building" efforts between China and the United States in the final decade of his life.
Notes: Includes bliliographical references (p. 387-398) and index.
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Jacket.