Country Driving
Three Journeys Across A Changing China
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2010
Summary
Country Driving is Peter Hessler’s account of his travels through China over the past decade. He journeys from the fortified towns along the Great Wall in the north, to near inaccessible hilltop villages and the entrepreneurial cities of the south-east, where factory start-ups are a dime a dozen.
This is the story of a nation modernising at great pace, and of the lives of ordinary Chinese caught up in that modernisation. With eloquence and humour, Hessler takes us on the road less tra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921656040 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1921656042 |
| Author: | Peter Hessler |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 589g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 153mm x 33mm |
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About The Author
Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is a staff writer at the New Yorker (where he served as Cairo correspondent from 2011 to 2016) and also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, Oracle Bones, Country Driving and Strange Stones.
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