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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time
The River at the Center of the World A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time
Author: Simon Winchester
A stunning tour of China, its people, and its history. Chosen as one of the best travel books of 1996 by the New York Times Book Review.
ISBN-13: 9780805055085
ISBN-10: 0805055088
Publication Date: 10/15/1997
Pages: 432
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Owl Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Author goes from Shanghai to Tibet, with a lot of emphasis on the at-the-time not completed 3 Gorges Dam and the displacements that will cause.

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