Behind The Wall A Journey Through China

Author: Colin Thubron

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Price : 19.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780099459323
Publisher : Random House
Imprint : Vintage
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Weight (g) : 0.224
Publication date : 31 December 2000
Dimensions : 2 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
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Author : Colin Thubron
Bind : Paperback
Edition : JUNE04
Pages : 320
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Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set 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.