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Riding the iron rooster : by train through China / Paul Theroux.
- Title
- Riding the iron rooster : by train through China / Paul Theroux.
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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- Description
- 480 p. : 1 map; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Counter Paul Theroux invites us to join him on the journey of a lifetime, in the grand romantic tradition, by train across Europe, through the vast underbelly of Asia into the heart of Russia, and then up to China. Here is China by rail (the Iron Rooster is the name of a train), as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of one of the most intrepid and insightful travel writers of our time.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- travelog (performed works genre)
- travelers’ writings.
- Travel writing
- Récits de voyages.
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Putnam's, c1988.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1 Train to Mongolia 15 -- 2 Inner Mongolian Express to Datong: Train Number 24 65 -- 3 Night Train Number 90 to Peking 77 -- 4 Shanghai Express 104 -- 5 Fast Train to Canton 145 -- 6 Train Number 324 to Hohhot and Lanzhou 166 -- 7 Iron Rooster 185 -- 8 Train Number 104 to Xian 214 -- 9 Express to Chengdu 229 -- 10 Halt at Emei Shan: Train Number 209 to Kunming 244 -- 11 Fast Train to Guilin: Number 80 261 -- 12 Slow Train to Changsha and Shaoshan "Where the Sun Rises" 277 -- 13 Peking Express: Train Number 16 290 -- 14 International Express to Harbin: Train Number 17 311 -- 15 Slow Train to Langxiang: Number 295 324 -- 16 Boat Train to Dalian: Number 92 343 -- 17 On the Lake of Heaven to Yantai 361 -- 18 Slow Train to Qingdao: Number 508 373 -- 19 Shandong Express to Shanghai: Train Number 234 385 -- 20 Night Train to Xiamen: Number 375 396 -- 21 Qinghai Local to Xining: Train Number 275 415 -- 22 Train to Tibet 435.
- ISBN
- 9780618658978
- 0618658971
- 9780618658978
- LCCN
- ^^2006028745
- OCLC
- 71210223
- SCSB-12159052
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library