Description
A vivid travel memoir, this book chronicles a young traveler’s 1981 journey from Nanjing University to New Delhi, unfolding through China’s shifting landscapes and cultures. Hitchhiking across regions as diverse as Sinkiang and Tibet, he meets strangers, navigates permits and uncertainty, and turns each practical challenge into an opportunity to listen closely to everyday life. With a keen, literary eye, the narrative captures the textures of roads, cities, and remote communities while reflecting on language, history, and the quiet resilience required to keep moving. Part adventure and part cultural portrait, it explores what discovery really means when the journey is as much about people and perception as it is about distance.
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paperback
Penguin Books India
Published Jan 1, 1990
178 pages
ISBN: 9780140139198
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First Published
1983
Language
eng
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