Behind the Wall

by Colin Thubron (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $5.36

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.27

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $3.27

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $11.61

  Having 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 astonishing diversity, a land whose still unmeasured resources strain to meet an awesome demand, and an ancient people still reeling from the devastation of the Cultural Revolution.