China – A Journey on the River of Life (Innbundet)

En reise på livets elv

Author:

Torbjørn Færøvik

Norwegian title: Kina
Norwegian subtitle: En reise på livets elv
Author:
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2003
Pages: 432
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
ISBN/EAN: 9788202220815
Overview Kina

It is almost like a fairy-tale: a journey through China on the Yangtze, the world's third longest river and the life blood of this vast nastion. A journey among 1,3 billion people. Few people are better suited to write from China than Torbjørn Færøvik. A historian specialising in China, he has travelled to the country close to 50 times in 29 years.

"It sounded like a dream," he writes. "Before me the Long River flows - the very river of life." In Shanghai he boards the East Wind. Ninety-nine days and 6,400 kilometres later, he is on his knees by the river's source, in a wild landscape 5,500 metres above sea level. The reader travels with him, through the multitudinous reality of China, through its noisy everyday and its unique cultures. We encounter all kinds of people - Party bigwigs, weathered nomads, beggars with hands extended and billionaires feasting on roast duck sprinkled with gold dust - in a country whose history never ceases to enrapture.

An adventure and learning journey second to none.

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Author Torbjørn Færøvik

Torbjørn Færøvik (1948–) has a Master degree in Asian History and has published several critically acclaimed travel books, as well as books for young adults. He has received the Brage prize three times, for India (1999), for China (2003) and for Maos rike - En lidelseshistorie (2012). In 2006 he was awarded the Cappelen Prize for his distinguished authorship.

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