Riding the Iron Rooster
1988 book by Paul Theroux
Riding the Iron Rooster (1988) is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s. One of his aims is to disprove the Chinese maxim, "you can always fool a foreigner". It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.[1]
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.[2]
Editions
- Riding the Iron Rooster, ISBN 978-0-14-011295-5
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Paul Theroux
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- Millroy the Magician (1993)
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- The Kingdom by the Sea (1983)
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- The Pillars of Hercules (1995)
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