Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
by:
Paul Theroux (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9785552213320 (5552213327)
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Language,
Travelogue,
Cultural,
Asia,
China
3 Things about Riding the Iron Rooster:(1) land sakes, Paul Theroux does not like human beings! he seem like a very disdainful and contemptuous person in general. that disdain and contempt certainly includes the Chinese - which was an off-putting and distancing thing to experience when reading a tra...
Among the first inventions of the Chinese were such things as toilet paper (they were enamored with paper and in fact invented a paper armor consisting of pleats which were impervious to arrows), the spinning wheel, seismograph, steam engine (as early as 600 A.D.) and parachute hang gliders in 550-5...
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