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River Town
Peter Hessler
Two years teaching English in a small city on the Yangtze during China's transformation. The river rises, the city changes, and the outsider watches with the precision of someone who knows he's seeing something that won't last.
Culture & Place
River & Water
Memoir
Asia
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Publisher
Harper
Published
2001
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