Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Sam Merry
yhteensä 13 hakutulosta
Dragon Chasing the Sun: Living in China, 2002-8
Sam Merry records his experiences of mysterious and exciting China between 2002-8, when he taught English in Beijing, Dongguan and Qingdao, before the Olympic Games. He examines …
China Against the Tides, a Guangdong Diary: Observations on China in the Year of the Horse
On a month's holiday to his flat in subtropical Guangdong Province, Sam Merry and wife discover more about the mysterious country of China where Sam once taught at uniiversities in …
Blue Cheese and Chou Mian
A happy marriage of East (Chou Mian) and West(Blue cheese) in a small southern naval town has comic results, as an English and Chinese struggle to understand each other and the …
Futures Past: Autobiography
Sam Merry makes the most of new educational opportunities, backed by wonderful parents who begin a gypsy life when he is eight, moving around England with the Salvation Army. He …
Holiday in Paradise Rigged: China 2016
For seven weeks in the summer of 2016, Sam Merry and his wife, Liu Qiong Yao, crossed from Hong Kong airport to sell their first marital home of Dongguan, "The Manchester of …
Silly History: or Past Imperfect
History is irrecoverable from a sea of sources, and therefore tends to fiction, on which students capitalise to produce their own inimitable versions. In similar comic vein to 1066 …
A Traveller in an Antique Land: Egypt by Motorbike,1975-6
In 1975, Sam Merry and his wife went by motorbike across Europe to Egypt, from Piraeus to Alexandria, where he worked for a year in a top Egyptian school.Egypt had fought the Yom …
The Construction of 20th Century History: How Historians work
Eighties Blues
In this semi autobiographical comic exploration of being an Eighties woman in "The Iron Lady's" Britain, our depressed heroine tries to come to terms with a broken marriage that …
The English Sergeant and Indian Orphan: Family Biography
The English Sergeant and Indian OrphanBorn to work to a typically large family in a Mansfield Cotton Factory twenty years after the Peterloo Massacre, William Lacey decides he …
Real China Love
After being tricked in love in this novel's prequel, China Love, Ma returns to China, where he has a lot to learn. Friction at his appointed school in Dongguan leads to the sack …
China Love: With Lips Gone Teeth are Bared
This love story begins in Prague, where our hero meets a Chinese girl, and moves on from central Europe to China and finally England. After discovering she is illegal, he has to …