The book is based on the principle that English lessons form an integral part of a young learner

Of all China"s provinces, Yunnan is teh one with the largest concentration of ethnic minority peoples. It is here in Yunnan that the mingling of different ethnic groups

In the 1930s, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. It was a catastrophe that would change the course of American history as people struggled to survive in this hostile environment, or took to the roads as Dust Bowl refugess. The Author explains the causes behind the disaster and investigates the dust Bowl"s impact on the land the people