Emily Hahn was an eccentric, spirited and independent writer and engineer whose insatiable wanderlust compelled her to spend most of her life traveling around the world. Beginners Luck, her first novel, chronicles a colony of misfits and outcasts in ...
A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily Hahn takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and nonfiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breathtaking j...
If you look at history through Emily Hahn’s jaundiced eyes, you’ll realize that romance just ain’t what romantics crack it up to be. Using such notorious affairs as those of Caesar and Cleopatra or Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Hahn reminds us th...
After her sojourn in England, vivacious Francie Nelson strikes out on her own -- but this time she’s not reluctant to do it. Her goal? To become a famous artist. Unfortunately, after she unexpectedly ends up spending a year in Portugal, she is requ...
Francie, who has been traveling through Europe for more than five years, now finds herself resentful upon returning to her Midwest hometown Jefferson to deal with a family crisis. When she gets home, Francie confronts a crisis of her own . ...
Seventeen-year-old Francie Nelson is charming, saucy, and spoiled. Her father thinks it would be a good idea for her to see how other people live -- in this case, the other people are the English. So she packs up and, with heels dragging the whole wa...