JOURNEY INTO CHINA

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.