WHY JAPAN WAS STRONG: Adventurous Investigations of a Yankee Hobo in Japan, Manchuria, Korea, & China, By John Patric, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1944.
 
Historical Fiction - Military & War (WW2)
 
John Patric was an American writer. During the Great Depression, Patric made his living as a traveling salesman, living out of his car and selling rubber stamps. After saving up $400, Patric left to travel through Japan, living on a paper-thin budget. Over the next two years, Patric would work his way through Japan, as well as China and Korea, penning articles for the National Geographic about his experiences. In 1943 Patric recounted his life in Asia in his best-selling book “Yankee Hobo in the Orient,” originally published as “Why Japan was Strong.”
 
Missing front half-title page and the inside sleeve of the jacket is glued to the book. Secure text-block with clean pages, and an ink notation and a store stamp at the title page.