埃德加·斯诺是中国人民非常熟悉的一位美国记者。最近,世界知识出版社翻译出版了伯纳德·托马斯所著的《冒险的岁月——埃德加·斯诺在中国》,此书大量使用了斯诺40余年的日记,为我们了解斯诺提供了许多新的材料。现将书中记叙的斯诺最后一次来到中国的经历摘录如下—— Edgar Snow is an American journalist very familiar to the Chinese people. Recently, the World Knowledge Publishing House translated Bernard Thomas’s “Adventure Years - Edgar Snow in China,” a book that made extensive use of Snow more than 40 years of diaries to understand Snow Many new materials are provided. Now the story of Snow’s last book to China’s experience is extracted as follows -