Reviews for From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941

The average rating for From Vagabond to Journalist: Edgar Snow in Asia, 1928-1941 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-09-01 00:00:00 Jeremy Cook Robert Farnsworth takes us on a different journey with Snow than other authors. He dissects the diaries and letters of Snow and his wife (and others, as available), and teases the fact from the occasionally conflated experiences that make for better stories in publisher's minds. Hearing about a dangerous and exciting life from a biographer decades later, one who examines dates and times with a strong lens, only adds to the sense of what it must have been like to be at the forefront of history. What can be said, and what should not be mentioned, is always difficult territory, when wars are exploding around one.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-28 00:00:00 Keith Grizzle Scott is a lifelong friend who happens also to have an extraordinary ability to find universal, transcendent themes in sporting events and figures. In this book, he writes about his recent year living abroad through the Greek Olympics, Pakistan-Indian Cricket summit and other euro-sports doings. There's also some fascinating encounters with massive figures like Lance Armstrong and Michael Jordan that reveal a really interesting, human side. Scott has a talent for getting subjects to open up this way. I just love his writing. This book is a good one for non-sports fans who'd like to be able to say they actually read a sports book once - and liked it.