The River at the Centre of the World
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0140249125
ISBN 13
9780140249125
Category
900-929 Geography, History & Biographies
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
448
Subject
Yangtze River Region (China) -- Description and travel. China -- History. Travel.
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Abstract
The author undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangste River to its source. This book presents the story of the river, it's cities and their people, built around the author's own journey to discover something of the essence of China and her people, the Yangtse being her soul and center.
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Publisher Comments
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically connected China to the outside world through its nearly one thousand miles of navigable waters. To travel those waters is to travel back in history, to sense the soul of China, and Simon Winchester takes us along with him as he encounters the essence of China--its history and politics, its geography and climate as well as engage in its culture, and its people in remote and almost inaccessible places. This is travel writing at its best: lively, informative, and thoroughly enchanting.
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically connected China to the outside world through its nearly one thousand miles of navigable waters. To travel those waters is to travel back in history, to sense the soul of China, and Simon Winchester takes us along with him as he encounters the essence of China--its history and politics, its geography and climate as well as engage in its culture, and its people in remote and almost inaccessible places. This is travel writing at its best: lively, informative, and thoroughly enchanting.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 0140249125 9780140249125
OCLC Number: 39836716
Notes: Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 1996 ; London : Viking, 1997.
Awards: Short-listed for Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award 1998
Description: xvii, 427 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Contents: The plan; the mouth, open wide; the city without a past; the first reach; city of victims; rising waters; crushed, torn and curled; swimming; a new great wall; the shipmasters' guide; the foothills; the garden country of Joseph Rock; the river wild; harder than the road to heaven; headwaters.
Other Titles: River at the center of the world
Responsibility: Simon Winchester.
Number of Copies
1
