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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.
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Behind the Wall, Colin Thubron
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- 1987
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- Title
- Behind the Wall
- Subtitle
- A Journey Through China
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Colin Thubron
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 308
- ISBN10
- 0434779881
- ISBN13
- 9780434779888
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Business, Business & Management, Biographies, Travel, Political Science & Politics, Politics, Economics, 20th century, British Literature, Asia, China, Narrative Journalism, Politicians' Biographies, Diseases, Communism, Doctors, Boarding School, Torture, Chaos, Zoo - Zoos
- Original title
- Behind the wall
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- 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.