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• Contents
• INTRODUCTION, Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt [1861-1942]
• PRELUDE, Outwitting Mussolini
• Chapter 1: ‘Gaunts never give up’
• Chapter 2: Fighting prejudice at university
• Chapter 3: Finding Doctor Right
• Chapter 4: Mary postponed her visit to China
• Chapter 5: Africa — the Dark Continent
• Chapter 6: Heading a band of naked warriors
• Chapter 7: ‘Madame, you have the heart of a lion’
• Chapter 8: ‘Murder Hill’ and Togoland
• Chapter 9: Black magic among the Ashanti
• Chapter 10: The male dinosaurs of London’s Royal Geographical Society
• Chapter 11: Through Tsarist Russia to Peking
• Chapter 12: Inside the Forbidden City
• Chapter 13: A political assassination
• Chapter 14: The Great Wall of China and Emperor Yongle’s tomb
• Chapter 15: ‘Behind every small foot is a jar of tears’
• Chapter 16: Chende and the hunting palace of the Manchu
• Chapter 17: The temple of the Three Mountains
• Chapter 18: ‘Keep your last bullet for yourself’
• Chapter 19: Last days in China
• Chapter 20: Exploring the Amur River and Saghalien
• Chapter 21: On troop trains through Siberia
• Chapter 22: St Petersburg and after
• Chapter 23: Captured by the Germans
• Chapter 24: The Gaunts in wartime
• Chapter 25: The final years