https://www.scmp.com/rss/142054/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, by Gordon H Chang. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Ghosts of Gold Mountain is the most comprehensive account you are likely to find of the building of the western section of America’s transcontinental railway. Author Gordon Chang set himself the difficult task of documenting the daily lives of the roughly 20,000 Chinese who helped build the Central Pacific section of American’s first... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3013784/chinese-workers-who-built-american-railway-and-their-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3013784/chinese-workers-who-built-american-railway-and-their-history?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:00:12 +0000 No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbridge, published by William Morrow. 3.5 stars A man-eating tiger that stalked India more than 100 years ago was history’s deadliest single animal, according to a new book by Dane Huckelbridge. In No Beast So Fierce, Huckelbridge tells the exciting true story of the attempt to exterminate the Champawat tiger in colonial India in 1907. This was no safari with a fleet of elephants and an army of bearers: it was one man named Jim Corbett with a rifle and three... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/2188836/historys-deadliest-single-animal-story-killer-indian-tiger?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/2188836/historys-deadliest-single-animal-story-killer-indian-tiger?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:04:31 +0000 WITH HIS WIRY frame and grey hair parted above gold-rimmed spectacles, Bill Purves does not look the type to trek 2,000 kilometres across China's remote rural hinterland with nothing more than a change of clothes and a small knapsack. But this 58-year-old engineer-turned-writer is made of stern stuff. During a three-month hike from Guangzhou to Inner Mongolia, Purves forsook such comforts as a sleeping bag and tent to rough it in the wilderness. Why? So he could take a first-hand look at the... https://www.scmp.com/article/371593/walk-riled-side?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/371593/walk-riled-side?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:00:00 +0000