Colin Thurbon's 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.VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys,from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784875343Number of pages: 384Weight: 305 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
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It is hard to think of a better travel book written this centuryA beautiful and profound travel bookA masterpiece of travel writing...a classicThubron is a very hardy traveller,and a very fine writer...(it is) a book of exceptional erudition,adventure and eleganceA poetic volume - interesting,shocking and deeply engaging, the work of a mature writer at the top of his game
Colin Thubron
Praised for his vivid and insightful accounts of remote destinations,Colin Thubron CBE is an acclaimed British travel writer and novelist who work has been translated into over twenty languages.
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