Author: WILSON, CHESLEY
Title: Swing Full Circle
Description: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode and the Book Society. 1957. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with age darkening to page edges with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel set just after the Second World War in China,by the American author, featuring Tully Sheldon, who is working for World Relief. His temptation is a girl called Alia, whose beauty was famous from Hong Kong to Manila, and he was thinking of her when he named his ship 'Wan Chuen' - ten thousand perfections. He knew it was against tradition to bring her on board, and as they sail along the troubled waters of the Yangtze trouble looms. Featuring characters such as a Welsh mariner and a White Russian captain, the moral crisis of Tulley Sheldon swings full circle in this tense, dramatic novel. SCARCE B2C. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Naval Fiction, Yangtze, China


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