I love an adventure story.I’m not talking about the jarring action packed adventure with lots of guns and running, destined for an R rating if it makes the big screen, but instead a personal kind of adventure for one person that ends up being a life changing personal journey for them.And that’s exactly what happened [...]
This book is a sublime adventure into the heart of another country led by a woman whose soul appears to remain in the culture of her birth. Though the author now resides in America,she has the ability to take the reader on a spell-binding journey along the most important avenues of understanding China in a [...]
Folks… this is the most basic of travel books.It skims over thehistory of China and then offers a few tips at the end of the chapter.The pronounciation guide is worthless at it does not begin to descibe how a person who was not educated in China would attempt the complicated sounds of Mandarin.The place names [...]
The oversized volume “China” is sheer beauty from cover to cover, with 238 magnificent photos depicting sites obscure and well-known across the vast, ancient country. We see scenes from such popular tourist sites as the Forbidden City, the terra-cotta soldiers of the Emperor Qin and the Great Wall. But we also get to see the [...]
The only other review declared that they “used this book during our trip to the Atacama Desert. It was not helpful…” Well, I imagine it wouldn’t be very useful, seeing that the Atacama Desert is in Chile, not in China! I generally prefer the Lonely Planet guides over the Let’s Go guides, which tend to [...]
John Blofeld’s account of his travels in China during the 1930′s & 40′s are translated for the first time and it is a cause for celebration for all Sinophiles.His words are a visual canvas of pastels and rich colors, smells, and tastes of a China no longer to be seen. Blofeld comes across as a [...]