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The China Sketchbook
I. Allen Sealy
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Description for The China Sketchbook
Hardback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China just his pen and a book of blank pages. When the literary conference that took him there ended and his fellow writers returned to India, Sealy stayed on to travel the railroads of the north in search of a town reminiscent of his Himalayan hometown and a man who might resemble himself. Sign language, good will, and plain luck see him through, but in a northern mining town known for its ancient Buddhist cave sculptures, Sealy finally comes to the conclusion that his ... Read more
A camera makes enemies; a sketchbook, friends. Firm in this belief, Irwin Allan Sealy carried to China just his pen and a book of blank pages. When the literary conference that took him there ended and his fellow writers returned to India, Sealy stayed on to travel the railroads of the north in search of a town reminiscent of his Himalayan hometown and a man who might resemble himself. Sign language, good will, and plain luck see him through, but in a northern mining town known for its ancient Buddhist cave sculptures, Sealy finally comes to the conclusion that his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857423979
SKU
V9780857423979
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About I. Allen Sealy
Irwin Allan Sealy is the author of many books, including The Everest Hotel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1998. He lives in Dehradun, India, where he is apprenticed to a bricklayer.
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