More from James Michener

  1. On Tuesday the freighter steamed through the Straits of Gibraltar and for five days plowed eastward through the Mediterranean, past islands…
  2. Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that…
  3. On a bleak wintry morning some years ago I was summoned to the office of our naval attache at the American embassy in Kabul.
  4. For some time now they had been suspicious of him.
  5. A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
  6. Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
  7. I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she ha…
  8. It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

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