Paperback: After living in China for five years, and studying the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavour: he acquired his Chinese driving licence.
An eye-opening challenge, it enabled him to embark on an epic journey driving across this most enigmatic of countries.
Over seven years, he travelled to places rarely explored by tourists, into the factories exporting Chinese goods to the world, and into the homes of workers.
Full of extraordinary encounters and details of life beyond Beijing, Country Driving (2010) - researched from 2001 to 2009 - is an unforgettable, unique portrait of the country that will likely shape all our lives in the century to come.
About the author: Peter Hessler is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he served as the Beijing corrrespondent from 2000 to 2007 and is also a contributing writer for the National Geographic. He is the author of River Town (2001), which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, and Oracle Bones (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for Excellence in reporting. In 2011, Hessler moved to Cairo where he is covering the Middle East for the New Yorker. He is married to journalist and writer Leslie T Chang.
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