Riding the Iron Rooster

Riding the Iron Rooster

By
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
1985 • 464 pages

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17 books

Train

Daren
Daren
The Incredible Mile: Siberia - Mongolia - Uzbekistan
Double Circuit
Corner Seat
One Chinese Moon
Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper: More Great Railway Journeys from the Daily Telegraph
Train to Pakistan
Slow Trains to Simla

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768 books

4 Star

Daren
Daren
Sea of Poppies
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
The Return of the King
Slumdog Millionaire
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Across the Nightingale Floor

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554 books

Non Fiction

Lemons
Danielle
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
The Dark Queens
The World's Worst Assistant
The Natural Mother of the Child
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

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434 books

Faction

geirertz
Geir
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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118 books

Reiselitteratur

geirertz
Geir
Ways of Going Home
Eye on the world
Slow Boats Home
In Search of Conrad
Sailing through China
The Imperial Way: By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

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489 books

Nonfiction

kab
kab
Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry
Tricks of the mind
A Brief History of Time
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Riding the Iron Rooster
Catch Me If You Can

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69 books

History

kab
kab
Kingdom of Characters
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
One Step Further: My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission

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132 books

Memoir

kab
kab
Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers
From the Ashes
All of Me
The Corpse Walker
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
Lakota Woman
The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

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90 books

Non Fiction

Tzusanna
ChristineSupporter
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
The Man Who Ate Everything
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
The Princes in the Tower
The Wars of the Roses
Washington: A Life
John Adams

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18 books

Travel

dunedin
John
In A Sunburned Country
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Riding the Iron Rooster
The songlines
From Heaven Lake : Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
Lonely Planet

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430 books

Owned

WarrenL
Warren Loveridge
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Day Of The Triffids
Fatherland
Cosmos
The Big Sleep
The Journey To The East

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19 books

Travel Exploration

WarrenL
Warren Loveridge
Return to the Marshes
The Flight of Ikaros: Travels in Greece during a Civil War
Life on the Mississippi
Gobi: Tracking the Desert
Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe's Discovery of the East
Age of Exploration
The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan

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14 books

Location China

WarrenL
Warren Loveridge
Man's Estate
China Shakes The World: The Rise Of A Hungry Nation
Ancient China
A History Of Modern China
Riding the Iron Rooster
Gentleman Of China
A Many-Splendoured Thing

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27 books

Good China Books

Garp
Gar Petterson
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
River of Smoke
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
The Art of Not Being Governed
The Vagrants
China Mountain Zhang

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2,755 books

Owned

Daren
Daren
Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
The Snake

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1,513 books

Travel

Daren
Daren
City of Djinns
The Age of Kali
Red Dust: A Path Through China
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Travelling: An Entertainment
The Wrong Way Home
On The Road To Damascus

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2,153 books

Non Fiction

Daren
Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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555 books

Usa Author

Daren
Daren
The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
Lucky You
Magician: Apprentice
Silverthorn
Prince of the Blood
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
The Fires of Heaven

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239 books

China

Daren
Daren
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Red Dust: A Path Through China
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Great Wall
The Terracotta Army

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243 books

North East Asia

Daren
Daren
Autobiography of a geisha
Blossoms and Shadows
Mao: The Unknown Story
Return to Tibet
The Great Wall
The Terracotta Army
A Bridge for Passing

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16 books

Foreign Countries

ToddT
Todd Trautman
The Places In Between
Taliban
Riding the Iron Rooster
Colors of the Mountain
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
The Search For Modern China
China Wakes

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449 books

On Hold

Funicello
Annette
Chopsticks
A lantern in her hand
American War
The Upside of Unrequited
Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Stay with Me

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22 books

Travel

toddtyrtle
Todd Tyrtle
Full Circle
Riding the Iron Rooster
Where the Pavement Ends
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
Travels with Lizbeth
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away