River Town

Zusatztext Studded with insight and humility! written with unshowy elegance! River Town is about ways of seeing Informationen zum Autor Peter Hessler is a correspondent for the New Yorker and a contributor to National Geographic . He is the author of ORACLE BONES and RIVER TOWN, which won the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. In 2011 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant'. Born in Columbia, Missouri, he now lives in Cairo with his wife and daughters. Klappentext Travel writing describing two years spent by Peter Hessler in China. Well-reviewed in the broadsheets! it was also the winner of the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. "Written with great clarity and affection" "The Times". Zusammenfassung Peter Hessler tries to understand and capture the spirit of the immense, exasperating and ultimately lovable entity that is China. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: downstream; the city; Shakespeare with Chinese characteristics; raise the flag mountain; running; the white crane ridge; the dam; the Wu River; opium wars; white flat mountain; storm. Part II: summer; the priest; Chinese life; the restaurant owner; money; the teacher; Chinese new year; the land; spring again; the river; upstream.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hessler, Hessler Peter
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2002
• EAN: 9780719564802
• ISBN: 978-0-7195-6480-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / Asia / China, Travel writing, Local History, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China