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2) China
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Easy to understand text (with maps)_brings our diverse world together by describing the people of China and the way they live.
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
"J. P. Mallory and Victor Mair describe the discovery of the enigmatic mummies, and reveal the latest attempts of Chinese and Western scientists to explain their origin and ethnic identity. The book examines the clues left by physical remains; their economy, technology and textiles (some of the mummies even wore tartans); and the later traces of the languages of the Tarim region.
The trail ultimately leads to two major contenders: the Indo-Iranians,...
5) Green China
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"With over 300 images, special sections focus on the ancient kinship between man and nature, the role of nature in Chinese art, the tenuous survival of the Siberian tiger, the other-worldly landscapes of karst rock formations, the multi-purpose bamboo and, of course, China's symbolic treasure, the giant panda."
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
As one of the world's leading field biologists, George Schaller has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species--from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to pandas in the Wolong and snow leopards in the Himalaya. Throughout his celebrated career, Schaller has spent more time in Tibet than in any other part of the world, devoting more than thirty years to the wildlife, culture,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace, to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. Like every other major power in modern history, China is looking outward to find the massive quantities of resources needed to maintain its economic expansion; it is now engaged in a far flung quest around the...
9) Wild China
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II-a saga of love, adventure, and danger.
On New Year's Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila, where journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby had married just a month earlier. The couple had worked in China as members...