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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Born in 1874 Johnston was likened to Lawrence of Arabia because of his travels in and studies of China as a young employee of the colonial service in the early twentieth century. Then for six years from 1919 Johnston was both tutor and confidant to the young emperor causing consternation by flaunting his rank and influence. In 1924 Johnston contrived Pu Yi’s escape from the Forbidden City and his enemies to the Japanese legation quarter. This the first biography of Reginald Fleming Johnston is an absorbing account of a man who witnessed his adopted country slide into ruin and war and who delivered his beloved pupil into the hands of the Japanese. Painstakingly researched the book describes Johnston’s travels in China; the terrorist tactics of the Boxer Movement; Johnston’s condemnation of Christian missionaries in China; and the women in his life his mother his first love Alice Walter medieval historian Eileen Power and Elizabeth Sparshott with whom he spent his final days on the island of Eilean Righ (which Johnston bought) in Scotland. (LL)