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China's Route 66 Journey

China Road : One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China

by Rob Gifford

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Paperback ISBN: 9780747593355 2 Jun 2008 197 x 129 x 23 (mm) 288g

Running 3,000 miles from the east-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel.

Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the heart of this country make China Road an outstanding and funny travel narrative - part pilgrimage, part reportage - which illuminates a country on the move.