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River Town Two Years on the Yangtze<br />First edition
by Hessler, Peter
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0719561566
- ISBN 13
- 9780719561566
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 2001. First edition, 2001. Hardback. 402pp. Black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket. When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust into a radically different society - surpassed anything he could have imagined. Poignant, thoughtful and compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a place caught mid-river in time, much like China itself - a country seeking to understand both what it was and what it will become. Book in very good condition. Very slight shelf wear to extremities of spine. A little spotting to text block edges. Internally very clean. Faint impression of erased previous owner's name to ffep. Very slight toning to page edges. Dust jacket very good. Unclipped. Slight edge wear.
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- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1305462
- Title
- River Town Two Years on the YangtzeFirst edition
- Author
- Hessler, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0719561566
- ISBN 13
- 9780719561566
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Topography;
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