Search Results for ‘China’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 27 matches found
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| Author: | Paul Grogan |
| Publisher: | Virgin Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 130496 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
An account of the first source-to-sea descent of Siberia's 4,400km Amur River, known in China as the Black Dragon. After wading upstream for five days, the two adventurers began their epic four-month...
| Author: | Colin Thubron |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 121955 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
| Author: | Kai Strittmatter |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 163401 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
If you are planning a trip to China or if just want to get to know a little more about the Chinese, let "China A-Z" by writer and journalist Kai Strittmatter be your introduction to this marvellous...
| Author: | Robert Bickers |
| Publisher: | Allen Lane |
| Catalogue number: | 117488 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities, rivalled only by New York and Berlin. Its waterfront crammed with ocean freighters, gunboats...
| Author: | Brian Payton |
| Publisher: | Old Street Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 154676 |
| Availability: | Special order. Order by email, weborders@stanfords.co.uk |
Bears are a symbol of the health of an ecosystem - and the global population is dwindling to the point where only eight different species remain. These creatures have long fascinated us and their influence...
| Author: | Ma Jian |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 106214 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Red Dust tells the fascinating account of Ma Jian's three-year journey around China. Following his 30th birthday he becomes desperate to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Facing surveillance...
The River at the Centre of the World
| Author: | Simon Winchester |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 68730 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In “The River at the Centre of the World”, Simon Winchester travels up the mighty Yangtze, which splits China in two - between the wheat-growing North and the rice-growing South, with almost 500 million...
| Author: | Ryszard Kapuscinski |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 166051 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket.
As a novice reporter in the 1950s...
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
| Author: | Jung Chang |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 122048 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang is the story of three different lives, three different generations and three different periods of Chinese History. The author left China in 1978 tells...
| Author: | Liz Pope |
| Publisher: | Tango Books |
| Catalogue number: | 178214 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In My Around the World Scrapbook, Tanya’s parents are going on a round-the-world trip. Tanya’s school says she can go too, provided she writes a postcard from all the places she visits - and makes a...
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 73971 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
This is the true account of Jacob d'Ancona's journey to China between 1270-73. An Italian merchant travelling to the 'City of Light' to trade with the Emperor, he suffered shipwrecks, the heat of the...
| Author: | Mark Kitto |
| Publisher: | Constable |
| Catalogue number: | 172923 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In 2004, Englishman Mark Kitto was at the peak of his career in Shanghai. Heralded by the Financial Times as a ‘mini-media mogul’, his city guides were the most popular English-language publications...
| Author: | Rob Gifford |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 168218 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“China Road” sees Rob Gifford travel deep into the heart of Modern China.
Running 3,000 miles from the east-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China...
| Author: | William Dalrymple |
| Publisher: | Flamingo |
| Catalogue number: | 16888 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
When the Karakoram Highway reopened in 1986 it was again possible to use the mountain road linking Pakistan and China and so to complete an overland trip from Jerusalem to Xanadu for the first time...
| Author: | Yuan-Tsung Chen |
| Publisher: | Union Square Press |
| Catalogue number: | 166262 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In the spirit of the classic “Wild Swans” comes this epic tale spanning three generations and three separate revolutions. “Return to the Middle Kinfdom” mixes biography and history into a single ambitious...
| Author: | Paul Theroux |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 20722 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Theroux decides to travel to China by train. He joins a tour in London and travels all the way to Moscow and then on the Trans-Siberian to Irkutsk. In the space of a year he travels on probably every...
In the Bloody Footsteps of Ghengis Khan
| Author: | Jeffrey Tayler |
| Publisher: | JR Books |
| Catalogue number: | 176523 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In the bloody footsteps of Genghis Khan is a breathtaking first person account of an intrepid 7,200 mile journey across the largest landmass on Earth, from Moscow to Beijing, undertaken to introduce...
| Author: | Dalai Lama |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 72462 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Dalai Lama's autobiography should leave no one in doubt of his humility and genuine compassion. Written without the slightest hint of pretence, the exiled leader of Tibet recounts his life, from...
Heartlands: Travels in the Tibetan World
| Author: | Michael Buckley |
| Publisher: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 109603 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
On a quest to come to grips and understand Tibet's culture, Michael Buckley leaves Lhasa and the Autonomous region of Tibet, where Chinese occupation has stifled Tibetan culture and visits other places...
| Author: | Heinrich Harrer |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 66559 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Heinrich Harrer, already a famous mountaineer and Olympic ski champion, was caught by the outbreak of the Second World War while climbing in the Himalayas. Being Austrian he was interned in India. By...
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