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Jonathan Watts interviewed
Posted On: January 5, 2011Posted In: Audio, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
The Guardian’s Asia environment correspondent discusses his dynamic travelogue When a Billion Chinese Jump.
Read More...Read an extract from When a Billion Chinese Jump
Posted On: August 9, 2010Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Faber
When a Billion Chinese Jump tells the story of China’s – and the world’s – greatest crisis. With filthy water, choking emissions and an unsustainable appetite for resources, China’s development has taken our planet to the environmental edge. Now it faces a stark choice that will affect us all: accept catastrophe or make radical change.
Read More...March non-fiction round-up
Posted On: March 24, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Enjoy Bookhugger’s roundup of the fantastically diverse non-fiction titles that have hit the bookshops this March – from Mussolini to the Mafia, and Eastenders to Okinawa, it’s all here.
Read More...Read an extract of Peter Hessler’s Country Driving
Posted On: March 3, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the long-time Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver’s license. For the next seven years he travelled the country, tracking how the automobile and the improved transport system were transforming China.
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