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Across China

Across China
Across China
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Book Specifications

SKUID
:
G17
ISBN
:
0688042236
Published Year
:
1986
Author
:
Peter Jenkins
Publisher
:
Sweet Springs Press Book
Book Condition
:
Used Good
Condition Note
:
This is used book old edition good condition.Book pages are yellowish color. jacket cover is small
Book Binding Type
:
Paper Back
Language
:
English
No. of Pages
:
351
Dimensions
:
22 x14.5 cm
Availability
:
In Stock

Book Description

"Do you want to go to the other side of the world?"
        A friend's call to Peter Jenkins down on his Tennessee farm was the beginning of a rare journey that took the author of two of America's best-loved books, deep into Tibet, to Mount Everest, and across China from the windswept plains of Mongolia to a forbidden fishing village                                                                               south of Shanghai  
          join Peter on a trip to Shangri-La and gaze across a land that few westerners have ever seen.  stand with him as he bargains in sign language at the Lhasa bazaar while marvelling Tibetans tug at his red beard. experience with him the anguish of a holy man whose temples have been destroyed by the communists. come along as pere rides with "Parnelli yak," the death-defying  driver of the Himalayan highroads, and follow some of the  world's most daring adventurers,"bad boy." wick, Geo, the "boy king,"
and the rest of the 1984 chin/Everest expedition as they struggle to place an American on top of Mount Everest.