Fried Eggs With Chopsticks

Polly Evans (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2005
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group) (Verlag)
978-0-553-81678-5 (ISBN)

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When she learnt that the Chinese had built enough new roads to circle the equator sixteen times, Polly Evans decided to go and witness for herself the way this vast nation was hurtling into the technological age. But on arriving in China she found the building work wasn't quite finished. Squeezed up against Buddhist monks, squawking chickens and on one happy occasion a soldier named Hero, Polly clattered along potholed tracks from the snow-capped mountains of Shangri-La to the bear-infested jungles of the south. She braved encounters with a sadistic masseur, a ridiculously flexible kung-fu teacher, and a terrified child who screamed at the sight of her. In quieter moments, Polly contemplated China's long and colourful history - the seven-foot-tall eunuch commander who sailed the globe in search of treasure; the empress that chopped off her rivals' hands and feet and boiled them to make soup - and pondered the bizarre traits of the modern mandarins. And, as she travelled, she attempted to solve the ultimate gastronomic conundrum: just how does one eat a soft-fried egg with chopsticks?

POLLY EVANS studied modern languages at Cambridge University before working for a London publisher. After four years she moved to Hong Kong to become a journalist on the city's biggest weekly, before embarking on her epic journey around Spain - the subject of her first book, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TAPAS. Her last book, KIWIS MIGHT FLY, is also published by Bantam Books. She now lives in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 195 mm
Gewicht	220 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	0-553-81678-0 / 0553816780
ISBN-13	978-0-553-81678-5 / 9780553816785
Zustand	Neuware