An often perilous journey up the Yangtze River aboard a Chinese junk provides a young and impatient American engineer new insights into life's meaning
The story of a rambling voyage down the Yangtzee river into parts unknown. A young American engineer travels to China in the late 1940s with the idea of surveying the Yangtzee River for the construction of a dam. The farther he progresses inland, the more disastrous the trip becomes and the less apparent the need or purpose of a dam appears to him. A powerful story of conflict and self-discovery.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Literary, Conflicts + Dualities, Disasters, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Stages of Life, Peoples + Cultures, Settings, Society + Social Issues
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: February 1, 1989
- Date Published: February 1, 1989
- Author: John Hersey