Englishman in Beijing by Brian Salter (.ePUB)
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Englishman in Beijing : What other guides fail to tell you by Brian Salter
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Overview: An Englishman in Beijing is a travel guidebook about the real Beijing, written by expat journalist Brian Salter, who spent several years thoroughly exploring China’s capital city from a unique perspective while working for China Daily Online and CGTN’s English-language TV channel. Combining what to see and do – across the whole of Beijing – with pithy cultural observations, detailed travel instructions and 600 colour photographs, this guidebook reveals what others fail to tell you. Some 150 amazing tourist attractions are featured, many off the beaten track and not even well known to locals.
The guidebook of course covers the must-see destinations that feature on the itinerary of every foreign visitor to Beijing: The Forbidden City, Yonghegong and The Great Wall. But Salter differs in taking readers to places that other guidebook-writers do not reach, notably Beijing’s amazing 150-plus museums. Of eight transport-oriented museums, three encompass aviation alone – including a candidate for the world’s best – while other esoteric offerings include: probably the world’s sole eunuch museum (which, bizarrely, also boasts a mummified corpse); museums devoted to tap water, taxation and diabolos; and a museum that proudly displays cars used by Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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