Behind The Wall : A Journey Through China

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  • Hawthornden Prize (1988)
  • Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1988)
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Behind The Wall : A Journey Through China

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ISBN: 9780099459323
Authors: Colin Thubron
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2001-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: Memoir, Travelogue, History, Memoir, Biography, Asia
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Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron sets off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert and 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 the devastation of the Cultural Revolution.
 

  • Hawthornden Prize (1988)
  • Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1988)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.