The Sand Pebbles by McKenna, Richard. Harper Row, Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend bltadwin.ru jacket quality is not guaranteed. McKenna, Richard. New York: Harper Brothers, First Edition. Thick Octavo. Item # pages. The great classic that Philip Roth voted as a wonderful book which covered the San Pablo (called the Sand Pebbles) in China which protected missionaries, businessmen, and government agents from the pirates, bandits and those who would not only rob but murder except for the presence of the ship Book Edition: First Edition. The Sand Pebbles is the story of a small ship, on a small river deep in the heart of China. Unknown by most of the rest of the world but home to the crew of the ship. McKenna, a former Asiatic Fleet Sailor, describes life in the river gunboats of the s with an accuracy and authenticity that is bltadwin.ru by: 6.
During this time he heard many firsthand accounts of the Chinese Revolution which he put to use in The Sand Pebbles. Mr. McKenna, a machinist's mate, served in World War II on a large troop transport operating on all oceans, and stayed on through the Korean War on a destroyer. In he retired from the Navy after twenty-two years of. ― Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles. 0 likes. Like "He was thinking it must be tough to be a woman. They were all needs and wants and wishes and the only real trade they had was going to bed." ― Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles. tags: women. 0 likes. Editions for The Sand Pebbles: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ), (H.
Richard McKenna was born in Idaho in He joined the US Navy in to help support his mother and younger brothers and spent over twenty years in the navy, serving for a while in China on a gunboat that patrolled the Yangtze River. He drew on his personal experiences for this book, The Sand Pebbles. After retiring from service, McKenna attended the University of North Carolina on the G.I. Bill and, after settling in Chapel Hill, he began publishing science fiction stories but it wasn't. 'The Sand Pebbles' is an historical fiction which portrays events and characters in China's uprising. I think Richard McKenna gives a very FAIR look at history and I cannot see McKenna’s account of these events as revisionist in ANY way whatsoever. McKenna pretty much called it like it was; he was, after all, in ’s China. But how many Idahoans know that The Sand Pebbles was written by a man who was born and reared in little Mountain Home, Idaho? Richard McKenna is often forgotten because he didn’t begin writing professionally until his 40s, after spending many years in the Navy, only to have a deadly heart attack strike him in , while he was working on his second novel. He was only 51 years old.
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