Great Wall of China; China Against the World
by Lovell, Julia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670063762
- ISBN 13
- 9780670063765
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670063762 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 6.3 X 1.38 X 9.25 inches; 412 pages; "Over two thousand years old, the Great Wall of China is a symbolic and physical dividing line between the civilized Chinese and the barbarians at their borders. Historian Julia Lovell looks behind the intimidating fortification and its mythology to uncover a complex history far more fragmented and less illustrious that its crowds of visitors imagine today. Lovells story winds through the lives of the millions of individuals who built and attacked it, and recounts how succeeding dynasties built sections of the wall as defenses against the invading Huns, Mongols, and Turks, and how the Ming dynasty, in its quest to create an empire, joined the regional ramparts to make what the Chinese call the 10,000 Li or the long wall." .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21126
- Title
- Great Wall of China; China Against the World
- Author
- Lovell, Julia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670063762
- ISBN 13
- 9780670063765
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- 0670063762, China, mongols, Great Wall
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Asia;
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Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
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