Travel Escapes and Dreams is a true adventure travel book of wanderlust and discovery that takes readers on unforgettable hiking and local transport treks to exotic cultural locations in Cina. Based on author C. Bowden's fifty years as an adventurer and world traveler. Travel Escapes and Dreams provides fellow thrill seekers and explorers an authentic immersion into Chinese ancient cultures and beautiful landscapes, as the intrepid travel writer and his careless friend Zeke embark together on many astonishing sightseeing excursions deep into the Chinese heartland on food, on rural train, and via backroad bus transfers.

Written in a biographical perspective that allows for light humor and contemplation in between exciting experiences, Travel Escapes and Dreams is an exceptional travel book that tells of a journey fueled by unabated curiosity; and a need to see, hear, and feel, close up and firsthand. It features direct experiences undimmed by expectations or old assumptions. This unique China travel guide is itself a fascinating realm in which only the truly adventurous are invited to travel.