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Behind The Wall: A Journey Through China
Colin Thubron
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Description for Behind The Wall: A Journey Through China
Paperback. Colin Thubron relates the story of his 10,000 mile journey across China, which he undertook when the country was just emerging from the Cultural Revolution. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
A powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.
'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh Fermor
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to the borders of Burma. He travelled through the wind-swept wastes of the Gobi desert and finished at the far end of the Great Wall.
What Thubron reveals is an astonishing diversity, a land whose still unmeasured resources strain to meet an awesome demand, and an ancient people still reeling from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099459323
SKU
V9780099459323
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-38
About Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed ... Read more
Reviews for Behind The Wall: A Journey Through China
An achievement of great and lasting brilliance
Patrick Leigh Fermor This transcendentally gifted writer is, of course, one of the two or three best living travel writers
Independent
A travel book which tells us more about this strange, sometimes terrible region and its people than a library of more pretentious works
Literary Review
An intrepid ... Read more
Patrick Leigh Fermor This transcendentally gifted writer is, of course, one of the two or three best living travel writers
Independent
A travel book which tells us more about this strange, sometimes terrible region and its people than a library of more pretentious works
Literary Review
An intrepid ... Read more