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| Data.No. | 470 |
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Annotation | IN DER TAIGA
hard cover, 156 pages.First and only edition. illustrated with 15 photographs.
The author, an actress who met and married her husband (an American mining engineer) during a theatrical tour to India and the Far East, and subsequently enjoyed a "long and eventful married life," much of it in Korea, where her husband managed a gold mine. "Korea between the wars was under Japanese rule; its ancient culture, its elaborate customs even then under threat. Mary gives birth to her child while copies of an illegal Declaration of Independence are hastily hidden from the Japanese beneath her bedclothes. The Korean Emperor's funeral leads to riots and slaughter. White Russian refugees from Vladivostok appear in a warship of the Imperial Russian Navy, pleading for sanctuary from the Bolsheviks and Mary has her last Korean adventure when she tries to bury her husband's ashes next to his father...................................................................
Rare source on the wild animals such as Tigers, Leopards,Bears living in the
the taiga of Korea ,Siberia and Manchuria.
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| Author | Mary Linley Taylor |
| Publisher | Verlag Paul Parey,Hamburg and Berlin |
| Pub.Year(s) | 1958 |
| Language | German |
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