Abrahm Lustgarten: 2 books
China's Great Train
Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people
In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown...
by Abrahm Lustgarten
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
It was Big Oil's nightmare moment, and the dominoes began falling years before the well was drilled.
Two decades ago, British Petroleum, a venerable and storied corporation, was running out of oil reserves. Along came a new CEO of vision and vast ambition, John Browne, who pulled off one of...