No Hurry to Get Home – Emily Hahn

Emily Hahn had a life larger than anything conjured fiction. With a passionate curiosity, her collection of New Yorker essays-come-memoir, No Hurry to Get Home, is an adventure story, travel narrative and historical document all rolled into one. The book traces her life through her early years in St Louis and Chicago and follows her on her exploits through the Congo, Japan and China in the early to mid-20^th century.