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China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps

Larry Herzberg - 2008

This first-ever humorous travel guide on China both dishes the dirt on the myriad travel mishaps that may befall any unsuspecting tourist and explains how to avoid them! Possible danger zones debunked include airports, hotels, hospitals, taxis, and bathrooms.

Readers will learn essential skills like how to haggle, exchange currencies, cross the street, decipher menus, say useful phrases in Chinese, and more. The guide comes complete with survival tips on etiquette, a map, and resource lists. Don’t leave home for China without it!Veteran travelers Qin and Larry Herzberg are Chinese language and culture professors at Calvin College in Michigan.

Flophouse: Life on the Bowery

Dave Isay - 2000

Now in paperback comes the gritty and beautiful examination of urban lives on the margins in the eight remaining flophouses in New York City's historic Bowery district.

Photos. NPR feature.

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