With the world at her feet & Californian railroad fortunes in her purse Aimee had a tale or two to tell Here she boldly delivers her hilarious memoirs of escaping headhunters in Borneo avoiding poisoning in Hong Kong & outwitting murder in Shanghai Not remotely cowered by her skirmishes with sin shame or vice Aimee celebrates her quintet of unfortunate husbands including a Russian prince almost forty years her junior & King Kalakaua of Hawaii emboldened by her forcefulness to hold sway over the faint of heart Aimee was a woman of means not always a lady & never what you might call 'proper' In this laugh-out-loud story of her life she recounts her adventures with flair invincibility & unapologetic gusto