by Simon Winchester · Neri Pozza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788873057147
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«Il fiume al centro del mondo» is a travel narrative and historical chronicle by Simon Winchester, published by Neri Pozza in paperback (448 pages, in Italian).
The work moves between reportage, customs chronicle, historical narration and adventure narrative. The thread is the ascent of the Yangtze, which allows Simon Winchester to trace in reverse the millennia-old history of China, with real characters and emblematic places such as the Jiaopingdu ford, linked to Mao's Long March.
Original in English: The River at the Center of the World (1996); this Italian edition is from 1999 and belongs to the Le tavole d'oro collection, translated by Stefano Di Marino.
For readers of travel literature and Asian history, especially that of China and the Long March.
Simon Winchester is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has written or contributed to over 30 best-selling nonfiction books, one novel, and several magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.
