In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the long-time Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years he travelledthe country, tracking how the automobile and the improved transport system were transforming China.Hessler writes movingly of everyday people - farmers, migrant workers and entrepreneurs - who have reshaped the country during one of the most critical periods in its history.
Country Driving illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against outsiders, is building the roads and factory towns that will shape the twenty-first century.
- ISBN10 1847674364
- ISBN13 9781847674364
- Publish Date 4 March 2010 (first published 1 February 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books Ltd
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 448
- Language English