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No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century (edit title)

Emily Hahn, Ken Cuthbertson (?) (edit contributors)

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Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the... read more

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Not long after my family moved from St. Louis to Chicago, I ran away from home.

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