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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
Category: Travel | Series: P.S.
One of The Economist's Best Books of the YearFrom the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution in China.Peter Hessler, whom the Wall Street Journal calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful wr ...Show more
Country Driving: Three Journeys Across A Changing China by Peter Hessler
Category: Travel
Country Driving is Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade - from the fortified towns along the Great Wall in the north, to near inaccessible hilltop villages, and the entrepreneurial cities of the south-east, where factory start-ups are a dime a dozen. This is the stor ...Show more
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
Category: Travel
Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and immersing himself in the lives of young Chinese as they migrate from the traditional Chinese countryside t ...Show more
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
Category: Travel | Series: P.S.
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through t ...Show more
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler
Category: Non-Fiction
An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
Category: Travel | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A "New York Times" Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and gr ...Show more
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (Reissue) by Peter Hessler
Category: Travel | Series: The\Hungry Student Ser.
412 pages, maps, notes This text presents an account of American aid worker Peter Hessler's time spent in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River during the late 1990s, a time of great change for China. He observes the natural beauty of the area and shares the lives of the local people. He directs a pro ...Show more
The Buried - An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
Category: History
In 2011, the world's eyes were on Egypt, as revolution swept across the country. But what lay below the surface of events was harder to see. Living in Cairo, over the following years award-winning writer Peter Hessler set out to uncover the everyday lives and archaeological secrets of a country in turmo ...Show more
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
Category: History
From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wante ...Show more
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