Behind The Wall : A Journey Through China
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh Fermor
A powerful, unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers. Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron set off on a 10,000 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 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.
