Across China
10 best books like Across China (Peter Jenkins): From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time, Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion, Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing, Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays, Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
Vikram Seth took nearly 2 months from China to India hitchhiking all the way across and finally giving go to temptation only in Kathmandu when he took a flight to Delhi. He passed through rural China, Tibet and Nepal ..enjoying most of the time and even the frequent inconveniences caused by natural disasters...
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze & Back in Chinese Time
| Author | Simon Winchester |
| ISBN | 0312423373 |
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically...
| Author | Stuart Stevens |
| ISBN | 0871131900 |
"Chop Stuart"
Travellers come in many flavors, just like ice cream. Some try to "get in" with the natives of the places they go in order to learn more about foreign ways and perceptions. Others prefer to challenge themselves with tests of strength and endurance, paddling up jungle rivers or...
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
| Author | John Pomfret |
| ISBN | 0805076158 |
As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm room with seven Chinese men, Pomfret contended with all manner...
| Author | Michael Levy |
| ISBN | 0805091963 |
An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux
In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of...
| Author | Alan Paul |
| ISBN | 0061993158 |
Alan Paul, award–winning author of the Wall Street Journal’s online column “The Expat Life,” gives his engaging, inspiring, and unforgettable memoir of blues and new beginnings in Beijing. Paul’s three-and-a-half-year journey reinventing himself as an American expat—while raising...
| Author | Bill Holm |
| ISBN | 1571312501 |
Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Writing about traditions that endure in rural areas as well as the bureaucratic absurdities an American teacher and traveler experiences in the 1980s,...
Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
| Author | Colin Thubron |
| ISBN | 0099459329 |
Having learned Mandarin, and travelling alone by foot, bicycle and train, Colin Thubron sets off on a 10,000 mile journey from Beijing to Tibet, starting from a tropical paradise near the Burmese border to the windswept wastes of the Gobi desert and the far end of the Great Wall. What Thubron reveals...
| Author | Kira Salak |
| ISBN | 0792274571 |
After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0688115853 |
Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert,...
The idea of a journey without companions is too daunting for most travelers. Not so the women of this collection. These contemporary pioneers savor the ultimate freedom of solo travel. Marybeth Bond discovers the dubious pleasures of desert camel-riding when she decides to follow an ancient Indian...
| Author | Janice Holly Booth |
| ISBN | 1426207336 |
Magnetically written by former CEO of a North Carolina Girl Scout Council and award winning CEO for the Western New York chapter of a national arts-in-education organization, this uniquely engaging travel journal describes four keys to unlocking personal and spiritual fulfillment: solitude,...
| Author | Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0156671409 |
Until I saw a Smithsonian exhibit a few years ago, I never realized that Anne Morrow Lindbergh flew with her husband on various trips, acting as his radio operator, navigator, & general Jack (or Jill) of all trades.
This is her account of their trip of trying to map new routes to Asia by flying...
Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants
| Author | Chen Guidi |
| ISBN | 1586484419 |
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in...
| Author | Nick Danziger |
| ISBN | 0586087060 |
This account describes the author's adventures during an 18-month journey "beyond forbidden frontiers" in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the Ayatollahs, entering Afghanistan illegally in the...
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
| Author | Stephanie Elizondo Griest |
| ISBN | 0812967607 |
Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement—commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the “Evil Empire.”...
North of South: An African Journey
| Author | Shiva Naipaul |
| ISBN | 0140188266 |
In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation', 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant to the ordinary people. His journey of discovery...
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 0785813314 |
If you enjoy nonstop adventure and heroic exploits, then you are sure to love Tales of the North. This wonderful compilation includes, in facsimile of the original turn of the century magazines, the complete novels of White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, The Call of the Wild and Cruise of the Dazzler, plus 15 short...
| Author | Will Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0670066842 |
Raised by his father in the dying town of Paradise Flats, Jack McGreary has learned to live by his wits. The year is 1939. Drought has turned America’s heartland into a dust bowl, and the world is on the brink of war. Jack’s father wants him to head north to Canada to sign up in the fight against Fascism....
| Author | Damian Harper |
| ISBN | 1740599152 |
Discover China
Walk the watchtowers at Badaling, where President Nixon once said, 'this is a great wall.'
Knock back a shot of Confucius baijiu firewater in Qufu, hometown of the sage.
Find out how a local farmer first uncovered the Army of Terracotta Warriors.
Perfect your Monkey...
The Clan of the Cave Bear, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters, the Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone
| Author | Jean M. Auel |
| ISBN | 1423306260 |
Contains Five Audiobooks by Jean M. Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, and The Shelters of Stone, and One Soul? MP3-CD Audiobook Player, Model DMP-206b The Clan of the Cave Bear: A remarkable epic of one woman's odyssey - filled with mystery...
Peking to Paris: Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World
| Author | Dina Bennett |
| ISBN | 1620878003 |
In May 2007, leaving China's Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge.
It's guided by one Dina Bennett, the world's least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist...
Don't Ask Any Old Bloke for Directions: A Biker's Whimsical Journey Across India
| Author | P.G. Tenzing |
| ISBN | 0143102990 |
Exploring a karmic network in 25,320 kilometres After twenty years in the Indian Administrative Service, P.G. Tenzing throws off the staid life of a bureaucrat to roar across India on an Enfield Thunderbird, travelling light with his possessions strapped on the back of his bike. On the nine-month...
| Author | Charles Kuralt |
| ISBN | 0385485107 |
Grammy Nominated! "I keep thinking I will find something wonderful just around the bend."
Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chroniclers--a man who has helped us see and celebrate...
