The River at the Centre of the World
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670863181 (0670863181)
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Viking
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Science,
Culture,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
China
As a travel book, The River at the Center of the World is always engaging. The central conceit of the history part of the book, though, doesn't work as the author contended it would. His initial idea is to start at the mouth of the Yangtze and recent Chinese history, and to work backwards in time as...
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