In Hersey's first book with a Chinese background, A Single Pebble (1956), a young American engineer, determined to build a dam on the Yangtze, goes up the river on a junk, an experience David Treadup also has in The Call. The book is an allegory using a river journey as a means of self-discovery. The engineer, like David Treadup, comes to recognize a grandeur in an ancient way of.....
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