Sailing Through China John Murray Here is an epic study

Here is an epic study of trauma and friendship written with such intelligence and depth of perception that it will be one of the benchmarks against which all other novels that broach those subjects (and they are legion) will be measured

and his father's estranged cousin

her mother

drawn on by the coolness that seems to more than match his own

and very old

Sailing Through China John Murray Here is an epic studySigned by Author Paul Theroux and Illustrator Patrick Procktor. Numbered Edition 83 150 Paul Theroux sailed down the Yangtze with a party of American millionaires. If this at times surprised the Chinese which it did both the idiosyncrasies of the company and the impressions of China itself provided rich material for the kind of perceptive, witty writing at which the writer excels. One hesitates, in a Chinese context, to describe the book as "sweet