Summary
China’s Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the world’s most famous sights. Millions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountains. We all feel we know the Wall. But we are wrong. It is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a few images or a day-trip.
Myths surround it. Many believe that the stone barrier marches across all China, that it has been in existence for over 2,000 years, and that it is the only man-made structure visible from the Moon. In fact, mo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553817683 |
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| ISBN-10: | 055381768X |
| Author: | John Man |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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John Man
John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford, he completed postgraduate studies in the history of science at Oxford and in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
His book Gobi: Tracking the Desert (Weidenfeld, 1997) was the first English-language publication on the subject since the 1920s. He is also the author of:
- The Atlas of the Year 1000 (Penguin, 1999)
- Alpha Beta (Headline, 2000) on the roots of the Roman alphabet
- The Gutenberg Revolution (Headline, 2002) on the origins and impact of printing
- Genghis Khan
- Attila the Hun
- Kublai Khan
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