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Shadow of the Silk Road

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by Colin Thubron
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Availability:In StockContributor:Colin ThubronSeries:P.S.Publish date:2008-07-01Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061231773ISBN-10:61231770UPC:9780061231773Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, Asia, Middle EastBook Topic:CentralSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCZGYNR415

To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some seven thousand miles in eight months--out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey--and explored an ancient world in modern ferment.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780061231773ISBN-10:61231770UPC:9780061231773Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, Asia, Middle EastBook Topic:CentralSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCZGYNR415
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Colin Thubron is an acclaimed travel writer and novelist. His first books were about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled by car into the Soviet Union, a journey he described in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier), Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet.


Among other honors, Colin Thubron has received the Ness award of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. In 2007 he was made CBE. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017, and named an RSL Companion of Literature in 2020.

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