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Oracle Bones Peter Hessler 9780719564413
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and... -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt by Peter Hessler
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux 'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler 9781805462880
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than two decades after teaching English in Sichuan Province,... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Peter Hessler 9781805462866
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first... -
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Peter Hessler 9781805462859
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.00'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first... -
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206237Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint -
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler 9780060855024
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060855024Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060826598Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint -
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road Rob Schmitz 9781444791082
Booksplease Price: $27.74'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' GuardianShanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of... -
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.05'A unique, kaleidoscopic view of Chinese society ... A must read' Qiu Xiaolong, author of Shanghai RedemptionAs any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides... -
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt 9781474612326
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.26As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab - and... -
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron 9780063099692
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063099692Author Colin ThubronFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China by Leslie T. Chang
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.21'Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable'... -
Beijing: Portrait of a City by Alexandra Pearson 9789622178038
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $18.38"Beijing Portrait of a City" is a captivating collection of stories, essays, poetry and reminiscence by leading China authors, storytellers and academics, about a city they know from the inside. The... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 The American Society of Magazine Editors 9780231147149
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.77The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 is an essential guide to the year's most entertaining, politically charged, and sophisticated essays. With pieces first published in The Nation, National... -
Egypt Robert Springborg 9781509520497
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to which Egypt currently is subjected and... -
The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China Ruixue Jia 9780674295391
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $29.10Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China's high-stakes college admissions test-shapes that society and influences education debates in the... -
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014*A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China.A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The... -
Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to... -
Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve by Lenora Chu
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59'I couldn't put this book down. Whip smart, hilariously funny and shocking. A must-read'Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherIn 2009, Lenora Chu, her husband Rob,... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 9781529157178
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR... -
Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West by Suzanne Ma
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.08When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter... -
Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China by Alec Ash
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.96As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.This is the generation that will change China. The youth, over 320 million of them in their teens and twenties, more than the population of the USA. Born after...