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Flowers on an Iron Tree: Five Cities of China; Before the Blossoms Fall: Life and Death in Japan

Ross Terrill
Agnes Newton Keith
Reviewed by Lewis C. Austin
April 1976
Flowers on an Iron Tree: Five Cities of China
Ross Terrill
Atlantic-Little, Brown
1975
423 pp.
$15.00
Before the Blossoms Fall: Life and Death in Japan
Agnes Newton Keith
Atlantic-Little, Brown
1975
326 pp.
$8.95
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Two examples of the time-honored travel reportage genre: Terrill excels at facts and statistics, Keith at aesthetics and emotions. Both books are nice if you can't go yourself.

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