Description
Description
This volume presents a China expert's personal choice of 50 China adventures, with practical information for planning your own trip. It helps you choose the right itinerary for a trip to China, and features 50 essays that bring China travel to life, taking travellers from Beijing's Forbidden City and Shanghai's Bund to the Great Wall, the Silk Road, the Yangzi River, panda preserves and more. Throughout, this book offers updated practical information on transportation, accommodation and dining.
About the Author
About the Author
Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester. In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Her novel, A Place of Execution, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Cunningly plotted...McDermid administers the venom drop by drop...Individually the characters are sensitively drawn. Collectively, they present the inscrutable face of closed-off communities so terrified of change they would kill for peace." --New York Times Book Review
"This absorbing psychological novel of revenge shows British author McDermid at the top of her form...outstanding pacing, character and plot development, plus evocative place descriptions, make this another winner." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "If you still haven't absorbed the fact that Val McDermid is writing at the top of anyone's game, here's another chance to join the celebration...her clean, crisp writing, especially about crime science, might just remind you of the early books of P.D. James." --Chicago Tribune "McDermid, whose reputation and popularity are growing incrementally with each new book, is very like P.D. James in her masterful mixing of forensic science with brisk plots and in-depth characterization." --Booklist (star review)
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub date:
2004-10-17
Length:
496 pages
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