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His descriptions are accurate and although seeming a little intemperate from the armchair viewpoint they are the common curre... Read More
This is no iron and silk though i did shoot through it briskly due to its cleancut writing and unrelenting tension as they stru... Read More
The book starts out with the quartet delivering skis to a national ski team in a country with no ski areas in the hopes of obta... Read More
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chinese, little, through and most. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 18 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 2 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Stevens provides a humorous recounting of a romp through western china attempting to follow the trail of 1936 travelers fleming an maillart along the ancient silk road
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The book starts out with the quartet delivering skis to a national ski team in a country with no ski areas in the hopes of obtaining a vaguely officiallooking reference letter that might unlock some door somewhere
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The book is all about the journey and those who have attempted to journey through bureaucratic developing nations are likely to recognize the types of frustrations and seemingly inexplicable events and policies recounted here
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is unfair to suggest that the author was minimizing the events of that spring as they had not yet occurred
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Realistic and enthralling account of an actual journey across china
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Those who have to live at golmud have other views very understandable ones
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A travel memoir from an abrasive guy who convinces three friends to go with him to china in the mid1980s to retrace the fabled silk road route across the high chinese desert to india
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The memoir is centered so firmly on him that the others barely come across
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