Behind the Wall

Behind the Wall

by Colin Thubron
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Publisher:
Random House
Genre:China
Language: en
Published:2004
ISBN13:9780099459323
ISBN10:0099459329

About the Book

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.