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The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals earnings with a sharply detected, hilarious bank account of his travels in China—a sophisticated, amazing country with enough hazards and delicacies to keep him, and visitors, endlessly interested.
Maarten Troost has charmed legions of visitors along with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go big-time, taking on the world’s most populous and intriguing region. In Lost on Planet China, Troost escorts visitors on a rollicking voyage through the new conquering heart of today's world, from the megalopolises of Beijing and Shanghai to the Gobi Desert and the hinterlands of Tibet.
Lost on Planet China sees Troost dodging fatal individuals in Shanghai; eating Yak in Tibet; deciphering restaurant menus (offering local favorites such as Cattle Manhood with Garlic); visiting with Chairman Mao (still inactive, very orange); and hiking (with 80,000 other folks) up Tai Shan, China’s most revered mountain. But in addition to his brand gonzo travels, the e book also offers a telling look at a vast and sophisticated country on the brink of change that will soon form the way we all work, live, and think. As Troost shows, while we might be familiar with Yao Ming or dim total or the cheap, plastic products that line the shelves of every store, the true China remains a world—indeed, a planet--unto itself.
Maarten Troost brings China alive as you’ve never seen it before, and his insightful, rip-roaringly funny narrative shows that once more he is one of the very most amusing and insightful armchair travel companions around.
