Enhanced by stories of their discovery, and those of their modern-day keepers, The Great Wall in 50 Objects is a personal and historical exploration of a world wonder.
William Lindesay OBE was born in Wallasey, UK, in 1956, and studied geography and geology at Liverpool University. His interest in the Great Wall of China started early and in 1987 he made what China's official Xinhua News Agency described as 'the most successful foreign exploration of the Great Wall'. As a Great Wall historian, Lindesay has published several accounts of his explorations and expeditions and initiated campaigns to preserve and protect China's most famous cultural landmark for which he was awarded an OBE in 2006. Lindesay currently lives in Beijing with his family.
William Lindesay has a knack for approaching the iconic Great Wall
of China in ways that are creative, idiosyncratic, and deeply
personal . . . He has succeeded again with The Great Wall in 50
Objects
*Peter Hessler, author of 'River Town' and 'Oracle Bones'*
Lindesay presents a coherent and highly informative account of the
geography, history, and material culture of China's Great Wall. His
compelling and well-written account is rich in profound and often
quite unexpected insights
*Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art
History, UCLA*
William Lindesay shows us the Wall in a completely new light by
looking at the smaller objects that make up its history . . .
Through these objects we feel the Great Wall transform from
architecture into a living part of the history and culture of
China
*Jack Weatherford, author of 'Genghis Khan' and the 'Making of the
Modern World'*
China's Great Wall is both a monument and a mystery, an almost
magical construction mixing beauty and terror. No better book
panders to our fascination with its grandeur and the details of its
construction. William Lindesay answers our wish to get closer to
the people who built it and lived with it by revealing so many
aspects of the Wall, taking us a journey across the centuries and
its vast length
*Jasper Becker, author of 'City of Heavenly Tranquility' and
'Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine'*
For years, Lindesay has hiked and studied the Great Wall with
exceptional passion. To him, it seems, the Great Wall is not a mere
structure, a political icon, or a cultural curiosity, but a
treasure trove of stories
*Jaime FlorCruz, former Beijing bureau chief of Time magazine and
CNN*
If you are going to China, and intend to see the Great Wall (or
even if, unwisely, you don't), take this book on the plane with
you, and absorb as many of its intriguing nuggets of Wall-lore and
China-lore as you can it will make your visit infinitely richer
*Prof. Christopher Cullen, Emeritus Director, Needham Research
Institute, Cambridge*
William Lindesay lives and breathes Great Wall history and he
exudes it with an engaging passion
*Mike Loades, author of 'Swords and Swordsmen'*
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