The Insider's Guide to China

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CHINA, isolated from the rest of the world for more than three decades by a painful but phenomenal social revolution, has emerged as today's new frontier of international tourism, the mecca of more than a million jet-set and backpack "pilgrims" a year.
Travel in China is challenging, but the reward for the tourist who understands and accepts this challenge is one of the most exciting and memorable experiences of a lifetime. And The Insider's Guide to China offers the opportunity to touch the soul of China and its teeming millions — not only its grand cultural treasures and relics but also the simplicity, generosity and hospitality of the ordinary Chinese people.
Derek Maitland is the author of ten novels and non-fiction books, including three major works on Chinese culture. His Setting Sails is a definitive study of the history of the Chinese junk; 5,000 Years of Tea chronicles the history and culture of the lusty leaf from its beginnings to its present... Tovább

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the insider's guide to
CHINA, isolated from the rest of the world for more than three decades by a painful but phenomenal social revolution, has emerged as today's new frontier of international tourism, the mecca of more than a million jet-set and backpack "pilgrims" a year.
Travel in China is challenging, but the reward for the tourist who understands and accepts this challenge is one of the most exciting and memorable experiences of a lifetime. And The Insider's Guide to China offers the opportunity to touch the soul of China and its teeming millions — not only its grand cultural treasures and relics but also the simplicity, generosity and hospitality of the ordinary Chinese people.
Derek Maitland is the author of ten novels and non-fiction books, including three major works on Chinese culture. His Setting Sails is a definitive study of the history of the Chinese junk; 5,000 Years of Tea chronicles the history and culture of the lusty leaf from its beginnings to its present day triumph as a beverage throughout the world. The Insider's Guide to China is his first travel guidebook and, as he describes it, "the most challenging, exciting and rewarding writing project I've ever undertaken."
Adrian Bradshaw is a talented young British freelance photographer based in Beijing. Nik Wheeler, also British, is a photographer whose sensitive photographic portrayals have graced no less than seven books and the pages of many of the world's leading magazines.
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THE INSIDER'S GUIDE SERIES The reality of travel is a yearning for discovery, romance and exotica in a world in which adventure has diminished with the speed of jet travel and romance has faded somewhat in the shadow of urban development.
But adventure and romance are certainly there, along with color and cultural vibrancy ~ all of it just a little harder to find without the aid of a knowledgeable, honest and no-nonsense travel guide. And if there's one thing that today's informed, sophisticated travelers are increasingly demanding, it is a guide that leads and doesn't fall back on promises.
This is exactly why THE INSIDER'S GUIDE SERIES is the most exciting range of guidebooks to be published this decade. They not only tell you where to go to find color, fascination and cultural insight, they also distill - they tell you where not to go. And they are definitive, covering just about everything you'll want to know about a country or destination. They are also entertaining and packed with top quality color photography — a combination that provides the reader with beautifully illustrated blueprints to travel enjoyment and satisfaction. Vissza