The Single Pebble

Hersey, John. Knopf. New York. 1956

First Edition. Good condition. No Dust jacket. Yellow Buckram cover with blue incised design of a boat above authors signet.  

A single Pebble is a short but extremely exciting and interesting novel about a young American engineer, who was sent to the Yangtze River in 1920 to discover it. As this river brought a lot of disaster to Chinese people of that time. The mission of the young man was to find out how to prevent people from disaster.