Behind the Wall: A Journey through China - Hardcover

Thubron, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871132427 ISBN 13: 9780871132420

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988

Synopsis

Having learned Mandarin, Colin Thubron set out on a journey through the Burmese frontier to the Gobi desert, the Yellow Sea, and the edge of Tibet. He traveled not as a foreign guest but as the Chinese themselves would. Each moment of his journey is illuminated here.

About this title

Review:

"An achievement of great and lasting brilliance" (Patrick Leigh Fermor)

"This transcendentally gifted writer is, of course, one of the two or three best living travel writers" (Independent)

"A travel book which tells us more about this strange, sometimes terrible region and its people than a library of more pretentious works" (Literary Review)

"An intrepid traveller, who also writes beautifully, with wit and erudition... The result is a rare first-hand account of a country seen through the eyes of one who has experienced what he describes and who is in a position to understand what he sees... He penetrates where most would believe it is impossible for a foreigner to go" (Spectator)

Book Description:

Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0871132427
• ISBN 13: 9780871132420
• Binding: Hardcover