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pro vyhledávání: '"TRAVEL / Asia / East / China"'
Autor:
Yajun Mo
In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine their vast country.The roots of China's tourism mar
Autor:
Derek Sandhaus
2020 Gourmand Award in Spirits Gold Medal winner in the Independent Book Publishers Awards China is one of the world's leading producers and consumers of liquor, with alcohol infusing all aspects of its culture, from religion and literature to busine
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Sophia Camille Erickson
In 2014 Sophia Erickson graduated from college with an apparently useless degree in European history from an obscure foreign college. Faced with crippling student loan debts and after an anxious couple of months waiting tables in her small Massachuse
Autor:
Leilei Chen
In the last few decades, China has undergone drastic changes, from a secluded Communist state to an active participant in the global economy. At the same time, the West's fascination with China has ascended to new heights. Leilei Chen's Re-Orienting
Autor:
Suzanne Ma
When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in I
Autor:
Colin Thubron
'A gripping read with fascinating political insight.'(Sunday Times, London)'Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, much of it along the border between these two powers a
Autor:
Laube, Lydia
Who else but Lydia Laube would climb the Great Wall of China waving a pink parasol while riding a donkey? In'Slow Boat to Mongolia'Lydia tells of her travels by ship, train and bone-shaking bus through Indonesia and China on her way to fabled Outer M
Autor:
Leo Ou-fan Lee
Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insider's view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different
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Bird, Isabella L.
'There never was anybody,'wrote the Spectator,'who had adventures as well as Miss Bird.'In Among the Tibetans you can see why, as Isabella Lucy Bird writes of her journey through the Himalayas on horseback and of her four months of living with'the pl
Autor:
Simon Foster
This is based on our full China Adventure Guide, which is 640 pages. It's designed to enable you to gain the most from China during your trip. All the major sights in the destinations covered are described, but so are little dumpling houses, lively m