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The Adventures Of China Iron
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Author : Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
language : en
Publisher: Charco Press
Release Date : 2019-11-14
The Adventures Of China Iron written by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and has been published by Charco Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Fiction categories.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 1872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through the pampas in the company of her new-found friend Liz, a settler from Scotland. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their eyes are opened to the wonders of Argentina’s richly diverse flora and fauna, cultures and languages, as well as to the ruthless violence involved in nation-building. This subversive retelling of Argentina’s foundational gaucho epic Martín Fierro is a celebration of the colour and movement of the living world, the open road, love and sex, and the dream of lasting freedom. With humour and sophistication, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara has created a joyful, hallucinatory novel that is also an incisive critique of national myths.
The Adventures Of China Iron
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Author : Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-11
The Adventures Of China Iron written by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with categories.
China Iron reimagines Argentina's macho national origin myth from a female perspective, in a joyful, hallucinatory journey across the pampas of 19th century.
Riding The Iron Rooster
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-12-15
Riding The Iron Rooster written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-15 with Travel categories.
Paul Theroux left Victoria Station on a rainy Saturday in April thinking that taking eight trains across Europe, Eastern Europe, the USSR and Mongolia would be the easy way to get to the Chinese border – the relaxing way, even. He would read a little, take notes, eat regular meals and gaze contentedly out of windows. The reality, of course, was very different. In fact, Theroux experienced a decidedly odd and unexpected trip to China that set the challenging tone for his epic year-long rail journey around that vast, inscrutable land – a journey which involved riding nearly every train in the country. ‘Wry, humorful and occasionally querulous ... as Theroux makes excruciatingly clear, travelling alone in the Middle Kingdom is not for the faint of heart or stomach’ Time.
China S Wings
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Author : Gregory Crouch
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2012-02-28
China S Wings written by Gregory Crouch and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-28 with History categories.
From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe. With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas—the infamous “Hump”—pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history. A hero’s-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London, China’s Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world.
Slum Virgin
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Author : Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Slum Virgin written by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Buenos Aires (Argentina) categories.
A wild, baroque adventure into the margins of Buenos Aires, where poverty, corruption, and gender identity meet a vision of the Virgin Mary.
Journey To The West
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Author : Wu Cheng'en
language : en
Publisher: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2018-08-14
Journey To The West written by Wu Cheng'en and has been published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!
The Year Of The Dragon
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Author : Oliver Chin
language : en
Publisher: Immedium
Release Date : 2011-12
The Year Of The Dragon written by Oliver Chin and has been published by Immedium this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Dominic the dragon befriends a boy named Bo as well as the other eleven animals of the Chinese lunar calendar and helps them enter the annual village boat race. Lists the birth years and characteristics of individuals born in the Chinese Year of the Dragon.
The Laughing Sutra
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Author : Mark Salzman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-02-08
The Laughing Sutra written by Mark Salzman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-08 with Fiction categories.
Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to China in his first novel, which follows the adventures of Hsun-ching, a naive but courageous orphan, and the formidable and mysterious Colonel Sun, who together travel from mainland China to San Francisco, risking everything to track down an elusive Buddhist scripture called The Laughing Sutra. Part Tom Sawyer, part Tom Jones, The Laughing Sutra draws us into an irresistible narrative of danger and comedy that speaks volumes about the nature of freedom and the meaning of loyalty.
The Gift Of Rain
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Author : Tan Twan Eng
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2022-02-03
The Gift Of Rain written by Tan Twan Eng and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Fiction categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Penang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt like he never belonged. That is until he befriends Hayato Endo, a mysterious Japanese diplomat and master in the art of aikido. But when Japan invades Malaya, Philip realises Endo bears a secret, one powerful enough to jeopardise everything he loves. This masterful début conjures an unforgettable tale of courage, brutality, loyalty, deceit and love.
Blood And Iron
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Author : Dan MacGregor
language : en
Publisher: Timberwolf PressInc
Release Date : 2001
Blood And Iron written by Dan MacGregor and has been published by Timberwolf PressInc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
"Fresh from the wilds of Wyoming, young Marine Corporal Rankin is savagely tested in the Battle of Manila Bay and the Boxer Rebellion."--Page 4 of cover.