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...1930s, Shanghai's Russian community had swelled to more than 10,000 and was the second biggest in the city after the Japanese. Its members staged operas, ballets and plays?one former ballerina even taught a young Margot Fonteyn to dance?and their restaurants, millineries and fur shops helped give the French Concession its cosmopolitan character. Every self-respecting Chinese gangster had a bevy of White Russian bodyguards riding on the running boards of his Chevrolet...
...always concerned about money as a printer traveling in the world of planters and fur traders. So, when the deist Franklin was offered a chance to print the pamphlets of the great fire and brimstone preacher, Jonathan Edwards, he had no reservations about being the largest distributor of Great Awakening propaganda. In a later controversy, Franklin was eager to print colonial paper money not because it would facilitate economic growth, but because he knew that as a printer, he’d get some of the cut for printing out the cash...
...stars, I swept the trees with a portable searchlight designed to mesmerize the marsupials mid-meal. In the space of an hour we found three, and with a light crack from his .22, Pete sent them to possum heaven. As much as I enjoyed helping out, I found possum-fur blankets a little hard to bear afterwards. Call (64-6) 874-7990 for reservations...
VINTAGE NIGHTCAP In Queenstown, Eichardt's Private Hotel, a former woolshed converted during the 1862 gold rush, has been refurbished with pewter fittings, the comfort of possum fur on the bed and a real fireplace in the living room. Vintage port is left next to the bed each evening, and strong black coffee is served in the morning. The five well appointed suites go for $420 to $560 a night; click on www.eichardtshotel.co.nz for more information...
...spend my last morning drifting through Guangzhou's famous Qingping market. If it has legs, wings, claws, brains, scales, fur, fins, gills or lungs, it's aggressively hawked here. This is Guangzhou in miniature: full of variety, full of extremes, always willing to do what it takes to make a fast buck. Seat belts? We don't need no stinkin' seat belts...