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Riding the Iron Rooster By Train Through China
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399133097
- ISBN 13
- 9780399133091
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, First Printing. Clean brown boards with clean black cloth spine with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers illustrated with maps; no names, writing or bookplates. 480 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has short closed edge tears at top of rear panel, with wear and short closed tears at bottom spine edge, hint of slight wear at top spine edge. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Paul Theroux joins a tour that makes its way by rail from London to Mongolia, stopping at Paris and Warsaw and in the Soviet Union. Reaching China by this unconventional overland route proves nothing short of hilarious and eye-opening about who goes to China and why. Then, through Inner Mongolia to Peking and Shanghai, Mr. Theroux and his fellow travelers rode trains and discovered that in some ways China is changing, and in others is still ancient and bound by tradition..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015917
- Title
- Riding the Iron Rooster By Train Through China
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0399133097
- ISBN 13
- 9780399133091
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- CHINA TRAIN TRAVEL RAILROAD ADVENTURE THEROUX
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel; China;
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