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22 produkter
Country Driving
A Chinese Road Trip
Häftad, 2011
179 kr
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After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening challenge, it enabled him to embark on an epic journey driving across this most enigmatic of countries. Over …
Oracle Bones
Häftad, 2007
162 kr
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Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and immersing himself in the lives of young Chinese as they migrate from the traditional Chinese …
Other Rivers
A Chinese Education
Häftad, 2024
176 kr
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'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next …
River Town
Two Years on the Yangtze
Häftad, 2002
162 kr
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When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust …
Oracle Bones
A Journey Through Time in China
E-bok, 2009
101 kr
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A New York Times–bestselling intimate and epic portrait of twenty-first century China from the acclaimed author of River Town—A National Book Award Finalist and a Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune"Oracle …
Country Driving
A Chinese Road Trip
E-bok, 2010
104 kr
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of Oracle Bones, a look at the human-side of China''s economic revolution via a seven,zero-mile road trip—An Economist Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year."Hessler, a modern Marco Polo crossing China in a rented Jeep Cherokee, …
River Town
Two Years on the Yangtze
E-bok, 2010
44 kr
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A New York Times Notable book, this memoir by a journalist who lived in a small city in China is "a vivid and touching tribute to a place and its people" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In the heart of China''s Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote …
Strange Stones
Dispatches from East and West
E-bok, 2013
113 kr
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The New Yorker writer''s collection of true stories highlights his perspective of Asia and the United States as both native and knowledgeable outsider.Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter …
Buried
An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
E-bok, 2019
213 kr
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From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones , an intimate excavation of life in one of the world''s oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive change Drawn by an abiding fascination with Egypt''s rich history and civilization, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to …
Buried
An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
2020
244 kr
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A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold, one day at a time.” — Wall Street Journal From the …
Other Rivers
A Chinese Education
Häftad, 1900
293 kr
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An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China’s economic boom, an experience chronicled …
River Town
Two Years on the Yangtze
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust …
Buried
Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt
E-bok, 2019
154 kr
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''Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.'' - Paul Theroux''The Buried is the kind of book that you don''t want to end and won''t forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together history, reporting, memoir, and above all the lives of ordinary people in a beautiful and haunting …
Buried
Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt
Häftad, 2020
153 kr
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'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together history, reporting, memoir, and above all the lives of ordinary people in a beautiful and haunting …
Other Rivers
A Chinese Education
Inbunden, 2024
288 kr
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'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next …
Other Rivers
A Chinese Education
Häftad, 2025
158 kr
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'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than two decades after teaching English in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach China's next generation. In doing so, he is able to tell an …
