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...contemporaries in the 1920s, young Aldous Huxley had been a legend for his "lack of charity." He was seen as "a walking encyclopedia," alive only from the neck up. Aldous, Elizabeth Bowen once said with damning praise, was "the stupid person's idea of the clever person...
...Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology...
...Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology...
...Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology...
Girard needed not only luck to gather any meaningful information about the vast, xenophobic country, but a lot of patient plodding and unusual methods as well. His persistence paid off, and the result, Nagel's Encyclopedia Guide to China, was published in French last year and has just appeared in an English translation. A 1,504-page compendium of hard-to-come-by information on China, it should be a delight both for China-watchers and for general readers who want to shell out $19.95 for a vicarious trip...