Full name: Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China

Author: Colin Thubron Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780099459323 9780736617017 0099459329 0736617019

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. Similar books: Journey Into Cyprus by Colin Thubron In Siberia by Colin Thubron Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron Among the Russians by Colin Thubron One's Company by Peter Fleming Fried Eggs with Chopsticks by Polly Evans Night Train to Turkistan by Stuart Stevens Frontiers of Heaven by Stanley Stewart Forbidden Journey by Ella Maillart Slow Boats to China by Gavin Young On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Red Dust by Ma Jian Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux The River at the Center of the World by Simon Winchester From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth Country Driving by Peter Hessler China Road by Rob Gifford Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost The Hills of Adonis by Colin Thubron