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Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid


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Maarten Troost has charmed and entertained thousands of readers with his tales of wandering among the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the world's most populous and intriguing nation. In Lost on Planet China, Troost escorts readers on a rollicking journey through the new beating heart of the modern world, from the megalopolises of Beijing and Shanghai to the Gobi desert and the hinterlands of Tibet. With his trademark edge and self-deprecating wit, Troost deciphers restaurant menus (offering delicacies such as garlic cattle penis); visits with Chairman Mao (still dead, very orange); and hikes (with 80,000 other people) up Tai Shan, China's most revered mountain. He learns to fish for tigers by dangling live chickens over Siberian tigers gathered in a pit below; studies Mandarin with a woman who may or may not be a take-out girl; and experiences the booming Chinese economy through its belching industrial towns--before North Korean border guards send him packing for home. Lost on Planet China brings China to life as you've never seen it before, brilliantly confirming Troost's status as the Bill Bryson of a new generation.

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Praise for GETTING STONED WITH SAVAGES " " "One of Troost's greatest successes is that he's not reporting, exactly, not writing as a journalist would, but simply living his life in a faraway place and writing about it." --"New York Times " "Troost manages to relate his misadventures in an irreverently funny style . . . this makes for a good beach read on your own vacation." --"Pittsburgh Tribune-Review "Praise for "The Sex Lives of Cannibals " "A comic masterwork of travel writing" --"Publishers Weekly ""Troost has a command of place and narrative that puts him in the company of some of today's best travel writers." --"Elle " Praise for "The Sex Lives of Cannibals " "A comic masterwork of travel writing" --"Publishers Weekly ""Troost has a command of place and narrative that puts him in the company of some of today's best travel writers." --"Elle " PRAISE FOR "THE SEX LIVES OF CANNIBALS" "A comic masterwork of travel writing." --"Publishers Weekly" "Troost has a command of place and narrative that puts him in the company of some of today's best travel writers." --"Elle"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780767922005
  • Publisher: Broadway Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Broadway Books
  • Height: 212 mm
  • No of Pages: 382
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 549 gr
  • ISBN-10: 076792200X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
  • Width: 149 mm


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