Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China by Colin Thubron

Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China by Colin ThubronA powerful unforgettable journey through China with one of our greatest travel writers.'An achievement of great and lasting brilliance' Patrick Leigh FermorHaving 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

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all of which divulge the tragedy and trials of his personal life

Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend

a conspiracy more sinister than he could have imagined spreads its tentacles from the hellish Franco regime

Genius Makers dramatically presents the fierce conflict between national interests

and its most beautiful expression happens in the lap of nature

He explores the connections between past and present

How is the world organized

and the Tarai—Prayag Raj Sharma has carried out first-hand research in the first two areas and he has offered new intellectual syntheses and overviews relevant to all three

The result of this epic voyage of discovery is 'Soul Mountain'

is unwanted by his family