China by John Keay
An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist.‘There is no understanding China, present or future without a sense of its past…Anybody fascinated by the puzzle of what come next for our frail, perplexed planet will find unexpected answers in this crisp, often witty chronicle of amazements’ – Peter Preston, Observer
Praise for India: A History
‘A delight … One of the best general studies of the subcontinent’ – Sunday Times
‘Ambitious, colourful and fascinating’ – The Times
‘It is hard to imagine anyone succeeding more gracefully in producing a balanced overview than John Keay has done in India: A History … A book that is as fluent and readable as it is up-to-date and impartialHardly a page passes without some fascinating nugget or surprising fact…one can only hope that John Keay’s ‘India’ will be widely read, and its lessons taken to heart’ – Guardian
‘Certainly the most balanced and lucid history…his passion for India shines through and illuminates every page…puts Keay in the front rank of Indian historiographers’ – Spectator
John Keay is the author of four acclaimed histories: 'The Honourable Company,' about the East India Company; 'Last Post', about the imperial disengagement of the Far East; the two-volume 'Explorers of the Western Himalayas' and 'India: A History'. His books on India include 'India Discovered', 'Into India' and 'The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named'. John Keay is married with four children, lives in Scotland and is co-editor with Julia Keay of the 'Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007221776 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007221770 |
| Title | China |
| Author | John Keay |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2008-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 592 |
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