The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester

The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time

Simon Winchester

414 pages • first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative slow-paced
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A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review. Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 m...

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