Great Wall Location Books

Great Pass Under Heaven

Great Pass Under Heaven
ISBN: 7-80588-468-4
88 pages
2003
Good information and color photos of Jiayuguan Fortress and Great Wall including area maps

Hebei The Great Wall Legacy

I Traveled Across Jinshanling Great Wall

I Traveled Across Jinshanling Great Wall
ISBN: 978-7-104-02560-3
96 pages
Color photos by Hou Zongxiang
English, French, German, and Chinese text
1 foldout map including tower elevations
2007

Jiayuguan Travel The Guidebook

Jia Yu Guan Travel The Guidebook

JIA YU GUAN TRAVEL THE GUIDEBOOK
24 pages
English and Chinese text
Good reviews and information on Jiayuguan tourist attractions and hotels

Jinshanling Section of The Great Wall

Jinshanling Section of The Great Wall
World Heritage of China
ISBN 7-5032-2320-0
88 pages
Color photos
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, and French text
2004

Mutianyu Section of the Great Wall

Qi Great Wall

Qi Great Wall
ISBN: 978-7-80754-113-4
by Yu De Pu
Shandong Map Publishing House
211 pages
Chinese text
Color photos
2008

Report on Ruins of Ancient Great Wall in Beijing North Mountainous Area
北京北部山区古长城遗址地理踏查报告
Běijīng běib

Focuses on walls in Hebei and Beijing areas
By Li Shaowen 李少文
282 pages
Language = Chinese
b/w photos
2004
36RMB

Shandan chang cheng

Title: 山丹长城
Author:
Title in Pinyin: Shandan chang cheng
ISBN: 6022-3-945 (reliable?)
Publisher:?
Year of publishing: 2004
Text: Chinese
Price: 26 RMB
Pages: 51
Copies: ?
Binding: Booklet
Bought at: It is a gift by the author

This beautiful and pricy booklet was handed to me by the author at Dunhuang, where he waited at a road for me. It has exceptional photographs by the author of this region where few is known in the west, e.g. the double walls at Shandan (Han dynasty wall accompanying the Ming dynasty wall only some 10 meters away).
The author has also showed me some of the Great Wall books he published (all about Gansu Great Walls, Hexi corridor etc.). I could only take this one with me because I was not able to carry more additional weight on the upcoming 1300 km along the Great Wall ...

If there is interest I could contact the author to sell us some copies and to send them to the west. I have his contact data, it is improbable that these books are being sold outside of China.

Simatai Section of The Great Wall

Simatai Section of The Great Wall
World Cultural Heritage Site
ISBN: 7-80069-701-0
Color photos
2008

The Best of the Great Wall Simatai

The Best of the Great Wall
Simatai
Photos by Li Shaobai
Preface by Luo Zhewen

The Great Wall Near Beijing

The Great Wall by Zhou Wanping

The Great Wall Photos by Zhou Wanping

The Great Wall
by Zhou Wanping

Outstanding photos of Gubeikou, Jinshanling, and Simatai by award-winning local photographer

The Ming Dynasty Great Wall in Huludao Suizhong

ISBN: 7-5068-1461-7
Publisher: China Literature Press
Author: Ren Demei (任德美)
Year of publishing: 2005
Text: English and Chinese
Price: 168 RMB

The book have a lot of interesting information of an area otherwise not very well described. Huludao (葫芦岛) is a prefecture-level city in Liaoning province (辽宁), bordering Hebei to the west, and Suizhong (绥中县) is the westernmost County in Huludao. In many books the Liaoning Great Wall is hardly mentioned or the Great Wall ends at Shanhaiguan.

Unfortunately a great part of the pictures in the book seems highly manipulated and they did a very bad job manipulating them.

I bought the book when I visited Jiumenkou (九门口) last year. Probably it's difficult to get the book anywhere else and only 1000 copies seems to have been made.

Mutianyu: Off the Great Wall

Mutianyu: Off the Great Wall
By Erin Elizabeth Williams

Interesting stories about individuals that live in Mutianyu village and how Great Wall tourism has changed their lives.

102 pages
English and Chinese text
2006

Walking Guide to Mutianyu

Walking Guide to Mutianyu
By Eloise Walter

If you have some time to spend at Mutianyu, you will find this book very helpful.

ISBN-13: 978-0-615-27958-9
ISBN-10: 10-061279589
115 pages
English and Chinese text
2009