This work describes the activities of a handful of American companies and about eighty American captains who were trying to run ships on China's great river during the treacherous days between the two world wars.
Describes the activities of a few American companies and about 80 American captains who were trying to run ships on China's great river during the treacherous days between the two World Wars. The considerable physical dangers of the Yangtze itself were compounded by even greater human hazards.