Ebook {Epub PDF} Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux

― Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster. tags: china, family, history. 0 likes. Like “I decided to go because I had a free year.” ― Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster. tags: trains, travel. 0 likes. Like “I had my own compartment - plenty of space, plenty of provisions, the grapes, cookies, chocolates and tea that made being on the. Buy Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at $ Shop now.5/5(1). This is an outsider's look at little slices of China in the '80's through the windows of the Iron Rooster and other China trains. Theroux spends a year traveling to and around China and Tibet, almost exclusively by /5().

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Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets out for China's border. He then spends a year traversing the country, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of a unique moment in history. Paul Theroux. Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China. 54 Kindle readers highlighted this. If a country shouted that it would fight to the last drop of blood that usually meant that it was ready to surrender; and in China, as a general rule, you could regard nothing as true until it had been denied. This is an outsider's look at little slices of China in the '80's through the windows of the Iron Rooster and other China trains. Theroux spends a year traveling to and around China and Tibet, almost exclusively by train.