Dimensions
128 x 198 x 18mm
'Many China specialists who disdain 'I saw China' books will wish they had written Colin Thubron's Behind the Wall ... A wonderfully perceptive writer' - Jonathan Mirsky in The Times Literary Supplement 'A travel book which tells us more about this strange, sometimes terrible region and its people than a library of more pretentious works' - Patrick Marnham in the Literary Review' This transcendentally gifted writer is, of course, one of the two or three best living travel writers' - Jan Morris in the Independent 'An intrepid traveller, who also writes beautifully, with wit and erudition ... The result is a rare first-hand account of a country seen through the eyes of one who has experienced what he describes and who is in a position to understand what he sees ... He penetrates where most would believe it is impossible for a foreigner to go' - Robin Hanbury-Tenison in the Spectator 'This travel book seems to me to have the quali
