A single pebble

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction in English,  Dams,  Fiction,  Description and travel,  American Engineers,  Social life and customs,  Engineers,  Travel,  Foreign Engineers,  Manners and customs,  Large type books,  American fiction (fictional works by one author)

Places: Yangtze River Gorges,  China,  Yangtze River Gorges (China)