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And I'd Do it Again: The Extraordinary Adventures of an Edwardian Heiress
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About And I'd Do It Again: The Extraordinary Adventures
Product Description Aimée Crocker was an heiress to gold and railroad fortunes and a daughter of Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818-1875), legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Justice of the California Supreme Court in 1865 and founder of the Crocker Art Museum. Her father was a brother of Charles Crocker, one of the "big four" California railroad barons. Aimée had a tale or two to tell. Aside from lavish parties, husbands, and lovers, she traveled widely throughout Asia. She tells of escaping headhunters in Borneo, poisoning in Hong Kong, and avoiding murder by servants in Shanghai. While away, she was christened Princess Palaikalani Bliss of Heaven by King David Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii, and then Princess Galitzine when she wed her fifth and final husband, Prince Mstislav Galitzine. This is her autobiography, first published in 1936. Review "Crocker has a certain forthright energy and arrogance: reading her chronicle of ripping yarns is like being repeatedly offered strong cocktails by someone determined you shan't go home. And she has mixed them herself . . . I was so exhausted by the end that I collapsed into the new Joanna Trollope, reflecting that what we women consider an adventure these days is pretty damn tame." — TLS About the Author Aimée Crocker was an American heiress, Bohemian, world traveler, and author best known for her travel adventures, her extravagant parties, and her collections of husbands and lovers, adopted children, Buddhas, tattoos, and snakes. Helen Lederer is a comedian best known for being in Absolutely Fabulous, and the author of Losing It.
