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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Jun 26, 2017 - 08:33pm PT
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Finished China's Wings a couple months ago. Loved it of course. Very well written. Appeals on multiple levels; Adventure, Business Inspirational, Historical.
Just finishing Islands In the Stream by Hemmingway where his main character is talking about spending time in Kowloon right before the war and the planes filled with raw tungsten ore being flown out of China. Matcheses up with Greg's story so +1 for Greg & +1 for Hemmingway for keeping their stories straight.
Missed you at COR this year Greg. I hope you are working on more cool books like CW. I will buy and read and promote them for sure.
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Jun 27, 2017 - 08:05am PT
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Excellent!
I made a blog post about Islands in the Stream and CNAC a couple years ago: Hemingway and China's Wings.
That one builds from a series of posts about CNAC and Emily "Mickey" Hahn, who was The New Yorker's correspondent in China in the late 1930s/early 1940s. She was quite a woman. Emily Hahn & CNAC.
(Taking the Mickey Hahn and Ernest Hemingway anecdotes out of the manuscript were the hardest cuts I made. I still kind of regret making them.)
I think a writer at The South China Morning Post stumbled across those posts while writing "In Love and War: a Hong Kong Honeymoon for Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn."
Always a good day when you get mentioned in the same paragraph as Ernest Hemingway. ;-)
For those of you into neglected classics, by two remarkable women, I suggest the following:
No Hurry to Get Home by Emily Hahn
China to Me by Emily Hahn
(Count me as the latest in a long line of men who've fallen at least a little bit in love with Mickey Hahn.)
and Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn. (Another is Ernest Hemingway, and the story about him in a drinking contest with a bunch of Chinese generals is fall on the floor hilarious.)
(And yes, missed you guys, too. I'm in total lockdown this summer trying to finish my newest, Bonanza King, an epic of the West about John W. Mackay and the Comstock Lode. Hard deadline of September 1, and IT IS NOT IN THE BAG.)
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Jun 27, 2017 - 09:15am PT
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Hemingway's writing is like Piccasso, so simple and emotional that no one can really do it the same way.
Greg Crouch's writing is more like a fine illustrator like Maxfield Parish, there is beauty in the story and in all the detail. Every page is comfortable.
Looking forward to the story on the Comstock Lode. A great subject certain to be as good as China's Wings.
When taking the tour of the Hearst Castle the guides mentioned that papa Hearst who was also a Calif Senator was heavily invested. His cash out was large and his knowledge of Calif politics lead him to aquire the huge property there at San Simeon.
Sorry to miss you but you wanted to be a writer and now you are one. Hard work but so much better than cleaning the ball-room at kiddie playgrounds. ;-)
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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Jun 27, 2017 - 10:09am PT
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It's a clear case of "be careful what you wish for..."
Papa Hearst, George Hearst, made his first "raise" on the Cosmtock and went on to own some of the best mining properties in the West. (Homestake, Anaconda, the Ontario among them.)
In more than a century of Hearst (fils and gran-fils) journalism, I challenge you to find one paragraph slagging off the mining industry—I suspect a fair portion of the family fortune is still underground.
Among George Hearst's less famous holdings were the Golden Chariot and Rising Star mines in southwestern Idaho, not terribly far from COR. (Flint District, in the Owyhee mines.)
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