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Riding the iron rooster : by train through China
- Title
- Riding the iron rooster : by train through China / Paul Theroux.
- Author
- Theroux, Paul.
- Publication
- New York : Putnam's, ©1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS712 .T446 1988 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 480 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Describes the author's travels by train in every province of the People's Republic of China.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- travelers’ writings.
- travelog (performed works genre)
- Autobiographies
- Books.
- Travel writing.
- Récits de voyages.
- Note
- Map on endpapers.
- Contents
- The train to Mongolia -- The Inner Mongolian Express to Datong : Train number 24 -- Night train number 90 to Peking -- The Shanghai Express -- The fast train to Canton -- Train number 324 to Hohhot and Lanzhou -- The Iron Rooster -- Train number 104 to Xian -- The Express to Chengdu -- The halt at Emei Shan : Train number 209 to Kunming -- The fast train to Guilin : number 80 -- The slow train to Changsha and Shaoshan "where the sun rises" -- The Peking Express : Train number 16 -- The International Express to Harbin : Train number 17 -- The slow train to Langxiang : number 295 -- The boat train to Dalian : number 92 -- On the Lake of Heaven to Yantai -- The slow train to Qingdao : number 508 -- The Shandong Express to Shanghai : Train number 234 -- The night train to Xiamen : number 375 -- The Qinghai Local to Xining : Train number 275 -- The train to Tibet.
- ISBN
- 0399133097
- 9780399133091
- LCCN
- 87031574
- OCLC
- ocm17234072
- 17234072
- SCSB-14450667
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library