The Five Foot Road: In Search of a Vanished China McDonald, Angus

Review If the price tag seems high at first, consider this book's many color photos and rich detail: the photos are surprising in what seems another essay-type paperback travel book at first glance. In 1894 one George Morrison produced an international bestseller based on his lone journey across wild China: McDonald here retraces his steps in 1994, traversing many backroads and obscure paths. -- Midwest Book Review Product Description The author retraces the journey made by George Morrison through China into Burma one hundred years earlier, noting how things have changed and how some have stayed the same From the Publisher Through text and one hundred photographs, this captivating travelogue depicts today's paradoxical China--at once the most dynamic emerging marketplace in the world and curiously unchanged since the nineteenth century.