A Single Pebble - Kindle edition by Hersey, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A /5(37). A Single Pebble. Hersey, John R. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN ISBN A SINGLE PEBBLE by HERSEY, JOHN Seller Vintage-Books Published Condition VG/VG DJ SLIGHTLY WORN AT EDGES, ONE SMALL TEAR. Pages: Edition 1ST Item Price $.
A Single Pebble - Kindle edition by Hersey, John. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Single Pebble. by John Hersey. A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze -- until the interplay. A single Pebble is a short but extremely exciting and interesting novel about a young American engineer, who was sent to the Yangtze River in to discover it. As this river brought a lot of.
A Single Pebble John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in and lived there until , when his family returned to the United States. He studied at. Set against the backdrop of the mighty Yangtze river, A Single Pebble protrays the culture shock experience by an American engineer. The book has great meaning today considering China's dubious efforts in building the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze which will displace millions, destroy habitat, and perhaps in the end be reclaimed by the wrath of the mighty river itself. A Single Pebble. Hersey, John R. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN ISBN
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