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Riding the Iron Rooster

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Theroux travelled through China for a year, ending his journey in Tibet after visiting Mongolia, Xinjiang and Manchuria. He was accompanied by a bureaucrat who acted as a chaperone.
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in the 1980s. One of his aims is to disprove the Chinese maxim, "you can always fool a foreigner". It won the 1989
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This People's Republic of China rail-related article is a
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Putnam
Paul Theroux
China
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
ISBN
978-0-14-011295-5
"Thomas Cook Travel Book Award | Book awards | LibraryThing"
"NYTimes"
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t
e
Paul Theroux
Waldo
Jungle Lovers
Saint Jack
The Family Arsenal
The Mosquito Coast
Doctor Slaughter
O-Zone
My Secret History
Millroy the Magician
Kowloon Tong
Blinding Light
The Great Railway Bazaar
The Old Patagonian Express
The Kingdom by the Sea
Riding the Iron Rooster
The Happy Isles of Oceania
The Pillars of Hercules

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