Ebook {Epub PDF} Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China by Colin Thubron

 · Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE FRSL FRAS (born 14 June ) is a British travel writer This was followed in Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book WHEN the Prime Minister dropped a bombshell ordering Alliance Steel to tear down its high perimeter wall early this month. Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10, mile journey from Beijing to the borders of Burma. He travelled through the wind-swept wastes of the Gobi desert and finished at the far end of the Great Wall. Like a classical Chinese scroll, this book follows a meandering, atmospheric course through China's landscape. Thubron (Where Nights Are Longest: Travels by Car Through Western Russia) rambles.

4. 41, () 3. Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10, mile journey from Beijing to the borders of Burma. He travelled through the wind-swept wastes of the Gobi desert and finished at the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals is. Auteur: Thubron, Colin Titre complet: Derrière le mur: un voyage en Chine / Colin Thubron Éditeur: Édition: Obligatoire: Couverture rigide ID du livre: Commentaires et caractéristiques de l'article Copie en tissu fin dans un emballage à poussière tout aussi fin. Particulièrement et étonnamment bien conservé ; serré, brillant, propre et surtout aux angles vifs. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific to form the tense, highly fortified border between Russia and China. In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic 3,mile long journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth.

Where Nights Are Longest: Travels by Car Through Western Russia – Atlantic Monthly Press, Behind the Wall: A Journey through China – Heinemann, The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom – Simon Schuster, The Lost Heart of Asia – Heinemann, In Siberia – Chatto Windus, Shadow of the Silk Road, Chatto. Colin Thubron, Author Harper Perennial $ (p) ISBN ``Like a classical Chinese scroll, this book follows a meandering, atmospheric course through China's landscape. – Hawthornden Prize for Behind the Wall: A Journey through China Referanser [ rediger | rediger kilde ] ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Encyclopædia Britannica Online-ID biography/Colin-Thubron, besøkt 9. oktober [Hentet fra Wikidata].