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Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages)

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By (author): Colin Thubron

Colin Thurbons beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey.

On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. A magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment, Thubron covers over 7000 miles in eight months enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell, and undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic, along the way.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 305g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jun 2019
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784875343

About Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron is the master of classic travel writing and a previous winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled all over Russia in an ancient Morris Marina - pursued at every stage by the KGB. From these early experiences developed his travel books: Among the Russians Behind the Wall The Lost Heart of Asia and In Siberia (all available in Vintage). So great is his dedication to travelling in Russia and China that he has learned Russian and Mandarin in order to be able to speak to ordinary people en route.Colin Thubron is also a prize-winning novelist - but his travel books have a much higher profile and command much greater sales than his fiction. He lives in West London.

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