Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake

Peake, Ernest Cromwell, Hillary Spurling (Introduction)

Hardcover. London, England, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. "Peake sailed as a young doctor in 1899 for a part for China where few people had ever seen a Westerner before, and his account of his subsequent career is vivid, sometimes startling, and almost entirely free of the self-righteous religiosity that makes most mission memoirs hard to read."

Record # 32165