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Hobart, Alice Tisdale was born on January 28, 1882 in Lockport, New York, United States. Daughter of Edwin Henry and Harriet Augusta (Beaman) Nourse.
(River Supreme: Pidgin Cargo by Alice Tisdale Hobart, publ...)
River Supreme: Pidgin Cargo by Alice Tisdale Hobart, published by Albatross Modern Continental Library as Vol. 273, First Printing, 1935. Adventure novel that takes place in China.
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(Originally published in 1917. This volume from the Cornel...)
Originally published in 1917. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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(The great land mass of North America, which in the United...)
The great land mass of North America, which in the United States offers vast stretches of fertile prairie and productive valleys, tapers out in Mexico. As the continent narrows down, the Sierras take over shaping the land. Huge blocks of rock and earth, tilted at precipitous angles, thrust the valleys up - five, six, seven thousand feet above the sea. From the central plateau, the mountains drop away like steppingstones, valley by valley, to the lowlands lying along the coasts. Mexico is strangely different from the States except where the two countries join. There the earth is a flat, sandy desert, with no outstanding feature to mark the difference between the two nations sprung from such unlike roots.....
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(Written from the perspective of an imaginary Buddhist vot...)
Written from the perspective of an imaginary Buddhist votary, this text depicts the life and character of the notable hero and reformer: Prince Gautama of India, the founder Buddhism.
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Family story of twin doctors. Each had a view of how to practice their field. It deals with prejudices during and after World War II and views on how the medical profession believed the patients were to be treated.
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Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth (1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American businessman who wants to bring "light" and progress to China in the form of oil and oil lamps, but who is caught between Chinese revolutionary nationalism in the 1920s and the heartless American corporation which has built his career. The title became a catch phrase for expansive American dreams of the vast China market even though the novel itself, written at the beginning of the Great Depression, was skeptical of large business and any supposed American ability to "improve" China. The author presents a clear portrait of Western idealism versus Eastern pragmatism in the doubly exotic setting of Mainland China before the advent of large-scale industrialization. The portrayal is unflattering to both sides. While some might now regard the more sympathetic treatment of the young American as out of date, others would counter that the picture is both historically and contextually accurate. "Now, nearly seventy years since it was originally published, . . . Oil for the Lamps of China again seems timely. Once again ambitious young Americans like Stephen Chase are working for big corporations in China. . . . Once again sensitive young spouses like Hester are coping with the rigors of living simultaneously in American corporate culture and Chinese culture. . . . As these parallels suggest, if Oil for the Lamps of China was timely in the 1930s, then it also seems timely today." –– from the Introduction by Sherman Cochran
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Hobart, Alice Tisdale was born on January 28, 1882 in Lockport, New York, United States. Daughter of Edwin Henry and Harriet Augusta (Beaman) Nourse.
Student of University of Chicago, 1904-1907. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Mills College, California, 1949.
Her most famous book,, which was also made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912.
(Written from the perspective of an imaginary Buddhist vot...)
(The great land mass of North America, which in the United...)
(Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling nove...)
(This work has been selected by scholars as being cultural...)
(Centers around a young man born of American parents in Ch...)
(A story about an American businessman in China and his fa...)
(River Supreme: Pidgin Cargo by Alice Tisdale Hobart, publ...)
("Young American businessman who wants to bring "light" an...)
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
(A turbulent, romantic novel of modern Mexico.)
(Originally published in 1917. This volume from the Cornel...)
(A GREAT CLASSIC MEXICAN NOVEL)
(Family story of twin doctors. Each had a view of how to p...)
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Member Society of Women Geographers of America, Royal Asiatic Society International PEN, Theta Sigma Phi. Club: Century.
Married Earle Tisdale Hobart, June 29, 1914.