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The Friendship Store on Jianguomenwai has a fair selection of imported travel guides. Please do NOT overlook the local travel publications. Some are excellent and the costs are considerably less.
Wangfujing Book Store is a great source of books generally and they carry a good selection of travel and history books. They have maps of most destinations in China.
You can "google" away many hours looking up travel info on the net. The sites are too numerous to mention. Just type in your destination for starters.
For interesting and important trivia visit the following links:
Enjoyable travel related reading:
Hong Kong China Tourism: bimonthly magazine
Miao Textiles from China: Gina Corrigan – great textile resource
A Single Pebble: John Hersey – Yangtze River
The Lost Camels of Tartary: John Hare – farwest China
Crossing the Desert of Death: Charles Blackmore - farwest China
Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud: Sun Shuyun- a spiritual journey along the Silk Road
Recommended travel guides:
Tibet, Footprint Guide, by Gyurme Dorje
Guizhou, Odyssey Guide, by Gina Corrigan
China, The Rough Guide Chronicle, by Justin Wintle - handy history guide
Travel relevant articles:
About Guizhou
About Qinghai & Gansu
About Shandong
About Jiangsu
About Beijing
About Shanxi
About traveling with kids
About the Silk Road
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