31 January 2011

Book talk in Shanghai, 26th Feb: The Great Walk of China

2016-11-24T01:14:26+08:00January 31st, 2011|authors, china, events, hiking, media attention|0 Comments

How long would it take to walk across the world's most populous country? Find out by listening to Graham Earnshaw's story. He'll be speaking at Garden Books -- 325 Changle Road, Shanghai -- at 6pm on Saturday 26th February. 40 RMB includes one drink. Graham's book The Great Walk of China is a journey into China's heartland, away from its [...]

23 November 2010

The Heritage Hiker’s Guide to Hong Kong

2016-11-24T01:14:28+08:00November 23rd, 2010|hiking, hong kong, new books|7 Comments

As the weather cools, I'm pleased to announce the publication of The Heritage Hiker's Guide to Hong Kong -- available from all local bookshops from later this week, or directly from the website of FormAsia Books. When I began to write the book which became the first in this series – a walking guide to Hong Kong’s high peaks and [...]

10 April 2010

Crossing Salisbury

2016-11-24T01:14:34+08:00April 10th, 2010|hiking, hong kong|10 Comments

As someone who makes a living partly from writing guidebooks, I was a natural choice to show a friend of a friend around on their brief stopover in Hong Kong recently. She was only in town for a few hours, so I met her at her hotel on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront and planned to take her on a [...]

2 March 2010

Book excerpt: The Great Walk of China

2022-11-07T00:26:19+08:00March 2nd, 2010|book excerpt, china, hiking, new books|1 Comment

In advance of Graham Earnshaw’s talk at the Beijing Bookworm on Saturday, here’s a chapter from his brand new book, The Great Walk of China. After crossing flat country for most of the distance from Shanghai, Graham finds himself in the Dabie Mountains of rural Anhui Province. Chapter 2: Drinking Games The day’s walk was over and I returned to [...]

1 March 2010

Breaking news: local author outsells Malcolm Gladwell

2019-07-12T02:28:44+08:00March 1st, 2010|authors, hiking, hong kong, media attention|2 Comments

In related developments, Hong Kong residents are taking to the hills in record numbers -- at least, if sales of this guidebook are anything to go by. Other Asian cities don't have such spectacular mountains and beaches so close at hand, so we're lucky to have such a wonderful natural resource. Check out some of the photos in this book [...]

10 February 2010

February book giveaway: The Great Walk of China

2016-11-24T01:14:36+08:00February 10th, 2010|book giveaway, china, hiking, new books|2 Comments

How long would it take to walk from Shanghai to the edges of Tibet? Long-time China resident Graham Earnshaw is in the process of finding out. His westward trek is described in his new book, The Great Walk of China, out at the end of this month. Through his conversations with the people he meets along the way, Earnshaw paints a [...]

6 February 2010

The Serious Hiker’s Guide to Hong Kong: back in print

2019-07-12T02:18:48+08:00February 6th, 2010|hiking, hong kong, new books|9 Comments

High ridges, sparkling waterfalls, lush feng shui woods and ancient fishing communities nestled in rocky harbours. Your mind refreshed, your limbs exercised, and your senses intoxicated, you wonder at the fact that only a few miles separate all this from one of the world’s most crowded cities. The Serious Hiker's Guide to Hong Kong -- the bestselling guidebook to the [...]

21 November 2009

Graham Earnshaw on Urbanatomy

2019-07-12T02:17:56+08:00November 21st, 2009|authors, china, hiking, media attention|0 Comments

Veteran Hong Kong and China journalist Graham Earnshaw -- who is currently engaged on a series of walks from Shanghai to Tibet, picking up each time from the place he left off -- was interviewed this week for Shanghai Urbanatomy's Why I Write column. His latest book, The Great Walk of China, will appear in early 2010. Graham will also [...]

9 November 2009

The China Sex Museum at Danxiashan

2016-11-24T01:14:42+08:00November 9th, 2009|china, hiking|1 Comment

Further to last month's post about the Danxiashan national park in Guangdong, it's worth mentioning that many of the rock formations bear uncanny resemblances to human sexual organs. (I have no photos of those, but Wikipedia does). Ancient Confucians probably avoided the area for these reasons, and it's still very much off the beaten track, but modern China has few [...]

8 October 2009

Chinglish in the mountains

2019-07-12T02:09:02+08:00October 8th, 2009|china, hiking|1 Comment

Hiking recently in Shaoguan, in northern Guangdong, I was grateful for the handy suggestions offered by the local authorities, and I fell down the hillside paying the proper attention to health and safety. The Danxiashan region of the province is a weird landscape of forest punctuated by dramatic red sandstone formations and divided by meandering rivers. Some of the hilltops [...]