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Culture tips to help you avoid social faux pas in Japan; Newkey-phrases section at the start of each chapter to help you findthe phrases you need fast ; 3500 word two-way dictionary
More kick than kung fu, more bite than dim sum, moreastounding than a Hong Kong skyscraper - Cantonese is the trademarkof success for your travels in southern China. Get talking and putyour best face forward with this phrasebook in your hand. Containsuseful phrases pertaining to transportation, social interaction,food, and safe travel.
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This book will transport you to the greatest metropolises and the most beautiful cities around the globe--from Africa to Asia and "Down Under,"and from Europe to North and South America. Experience fascinating insights into the canyon-like streets of modern super-cities, or take a stroll through picturesque lanes all across the continents. These cities have so much to tell--about the greatest events in world history, and also the local stories that make up the life of a city, every single day.
There's no need to lose face, forgo the Peking duck or miss the slow boat down the Yangtze. This phrasebook will prove more valuable on the road than a bicycle in Beijing. comprehensive food section; etiquette & cultural tips; easy-to-use pronunciation guide; sections include phrases for finding accommodation & for hitting the town; useful suggestions for health needs & emergencies; extensive two-way dictionary & user-friendly sentence builder; now with Pinyin.
北京，中华人民共和国的首都，全国政治、文化、交通、旅游和国际交往的中心。位于北纬39°56′，东经116°20′。西拥太行、北枕燕山，东临渤海，南面华北大平原，是连接我国东北、西北和中原的枢纽，造成形似“海湾”之势，故自古就有“北京湾”之称。全市由11个区和7个县组成。为我国四大直辖市之首。 70万年前，北京人在这里繁衍生息，然后延续至燕之蓟城，又从燕之蓟城到唐之幽州，再从元之大都至明清之帝京。如今的北京历经数十代的经营，拥有众多辉煌的帝都景观和丰厚浓郁的文化底蕴，世界*的皇宫故宫、我国*的祭天神庙天坛、世所罕见的皇家园林颐和园、世界八大奇迹之一的长城、北京*的古墓群明十三陵，还有周口店北京猿人遗址都已被联合国教科文组织列入世界文化遗产。 此外，北京的宗教建筑也是赫赫有名，潭柘寺正殿上的一对鸱吻
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Travel, associated as it is with strangeness, marvels, and excitement, has always proved an irresistible subject for writers. 'The Oxford Book of Travel Stories' brings together some of the best short fiction on this most exhilarating of subjects from writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Ring Larner, William Trevor, Sylvia Townsend Warner, John Cheever, Beryl Bainbridge, and V. S. Pritchett. Readers of this anthology will be able to revel in the atmosphere of nineteenth-century Palestine, the Riviera of the 1920s, or a botanical tour of Greece. There are stories set in far distant locations - China, Australia - and others closer to home, such as Benedict Kiely's entrancing 'A Journey to the Seven Streams'. Most are high-spirited, in keeping with the theme, some are wonderfully funny and one or two productively unsettling, such as Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'. Some deal with the journey itself, and encounters on train or boat; others see travel as a literal rite of passage
