Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival is a narrative nonfiction book by author Dean King. It follows the stories of the 30 women who undertook the Long March as part of the Chinese Red Army in 1934. While only 10,000 of the original 86,000 soldiers survived the 4,000 mile trek, all 30 women survived. To research the project, King interviewed the last surviving woman who marched with the First Army, and delved into historical accounts previously untranslated into English. As with his previous book, the nonfiction national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara, he also traversed one of the most dangerous portions of the journey on foot, trekking in the Snowy Mountains and on the high-altitude bogs of western Sichuan Province (the deadliest part of the Long March). Unbound has been released in hardback, eBook, and audiobook.Writing in the Southeast Asia Review, critic Daniel Metraux wrote: \"Unbound is a must-read for any student of modern Chinese history and ranks with Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (1939), a one of the classic narratives of the early Chinese Communist Party.\""@en }
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- Unbound_(book) abstract "Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival is a narrative nonfiction book by author Dean King. It follows the stories of the 30 women who undertook the Long March as part of the Chinese Red Army in 1934. While only 10,000 of the original 86,000 soldiers survived the 4,000 mile trek, all 30 women survived. To research the project, King interviewed the last surviving woman who marched with the First Army, and delved into historical accounts previously untranslated into English. As with his previous book, the nonfiction national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara, he also traversed one of the most dangerous portions of the journey on foot, trekking in the Snowy Mountains and on the high-altitude bogs of western Sichuan Province (the deadliest part of the Long March). Unbound has been released in hardback, eBook, and audiobook.Writing in the Southeast Asia Review, critic Daniel Metraux wrote: \"Unbound is a must-read for any student of modern Chinese history and ranks with Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (1939), a one of the classic narratives of the early Chinese Communist Party.\"".