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The river at the center of the world : a journey up the Yangtze and back in Chinese time / Simon Winchester.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Picador/Henry Holt, 2004, c1996.Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: xviii, 414 p. : maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0312423373 (pbk.)
  • 9780312423377 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Journey up the Yangtze and back in Chinese time
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 915.1/20459 22
LOC classification:
  • DS793.Y3 W56 2004
Contents:
1 The Plan 7 -- 2 The Mouth, Open Wide 33 -- 3 The City Without a Past 60 -- 4 The First Reach 89 -- 5 City of Victims 113 -- 6 Rising Waters 141 -- 7 Crushed, Torn and Curled 160 -- 8 Swimming 186 -- 9 A New Great Wall 212 -- 10 The Shipmaster's Guide 253 -- 11 The Foothills 270 -- 12 The Garden Country of Joseph Rock 291 -- 13 The River Wild 331 -- 14 Harder Than the Road to Heaven 356 -- 15 Headwaters 387 -- Afterword: The Yangtze 395.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 915.1 WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 501059
Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 915.1 WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 501060
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-404) and index.

1 The Plan 7 -- 2 The Mouth, Open Wide 33 -- 3 The City Without a Past 60 -- 4 The First Reach 89 -- 5 City of Victims 113 -- 6 Rising Waters 141 -- 7 Crushed, Torn and Curled 160 -- 8 Swimming 186 -- 9 A New Great Wall 212 -- 10 The Shipmaster's Guide 253 -- 11 The Foothills 270 -- 12 The Garden Country of Joseph Rock 291 -- 13 The River Wild 331 -- 14 Harder Than the Road to Heaven 356 -- 15 Headwaters 387 -- Afterword: The Yangtze 395.

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