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Peter Hessler
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June 14, 1969
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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2001
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29 editions
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
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2009
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38 editions
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
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2006
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3 editions
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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
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2019
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19 editions
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Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West
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2013
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14 editions
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
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2007
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21 editions
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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
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2013
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Chinese Sentiment
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2011
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AKHENATEN, EGYPT'S FIRST REVOLUTIONARY [KING TUT'S FATHER]
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Country Driving Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Written during the Qing dynasty, this book is a quirky, evocative, and surprisingly intimate glimpse of the mind of a highly literate gentleman of...
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“The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.”
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“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.”
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
“I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I always thought it was kind of a simple game, but I accepted. And he beat me nine or ten games in a row. That’s sort of like living in a small town. It’s a simpler game, but it’s played to a higher level.”
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