John Clark (10) (1909–1967)

[from Hunza: Lost Kingdom of the Himalayas]
John Clark, born forty-seven years ago in Chicago, is now a research associate in the department of geology at Princeton University. A holder of four degrees in geology (one each from the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburg [sic] and two from Princeton, this energetic man has split his career between teaching and study in the university and geological adventuring in the American West and in the far-distant reaches of Central Asia.

Dr. Clark served more than four years in the U.S. Army during World War II, mostly as a long-range reconnaisance officer on the general staff of the China-Burma-India Theater, in northwest China, in Iran, and in India. It was here that he had the disturbing experience of seeing the Russian Communists win the friendship, and thus control, of neighboring undeveloped peoples through simple methods that raised the living standards of all the natives. After the war he tried, in vain, to interest the United States Government and the American private foundations in these practical, inexpensive ways of making new friends and of assisting technologically backward peoples. Nobody was interested.

So Dr. Clark went alone to Hunza, in mid-Asia, to see what one American could do. This book tells what he did there. He expects to return to Hunza shortly after the book's publication.