JOURNEY INTO CHINA

Kenneth C. Danforth (Editor); National Geographic Society

ISBN 10: 0870444379 / ISBN 13: 9780870444371

Published by National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1982

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Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed w/an Imperial dragon to red linen boards, DJ/VG; intact w/marked wear & tape repairs. Endpaper s/motifs from royal robes. Once upon a time, many in the West dug garden holes to borrow into China. This is a portrait the world into which we would have emerged, in the 1980s, at endeavor's end. A world in time. 518 pgs, over 400 color photos from Nat'l Geographic lenses, in 11 chapters: 1, Ebb and Flow of Conquest; 2, City of the Khans, Capital of the Cadres; 3, On the Trail of the Long Stone Serpent; 4, The Lash of the Dragon; 5, Caravans of Profit & Cargoes of Ideas; 6, The Northward Flow of Tribute; 7, The Torrent of Life; 8, By Rail to the Monsoon Jungles; 9, People of the High Plateau; 10, Toward the Cold Frontier; and 11, Sampan Ports & the Tides of Change.

Seller Inventory # 019301

Bibliographic Details

• Title: JOURNEY INTO CHINA
• Publisher: National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870444379
• ISBN 13: 9780870444371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, 6th P OF 1987
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel/Travelogue/Tour Guides
  • Society/Social Sciences/Cultural Studies
  • History

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Synopsis

Contents: Journey from the past; Peking; The Great Wall; Yellow River Valley; Silk Road, Grand Canal, Yangtze River, The deep interior, Tibet, Northeast China, and South China Coast.