Shadow of the Silk Road

VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindOn 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 Thubron enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell, and undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic, along the way.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Colin Thubron
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprachen: Englisch
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2019
• Thema: Reise > Reiseberichte, Reiseerzählungen > Welt, Arktis ,Antarktis
• EAN: 9781784875343
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-534-3
• Anzahl Seiten: 384
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.4 cm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics; Vintage Voyages; Vintage Voyages
• Themen: China, Graham Greene, Lonely Planet, Lake District, Silk Road, travel guide, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, Peter Frankopan, Asian History, English Dictionary, Xiaolu Guo, To the Lighthouse, travel non-fiction, prisoners of geography by tim marshall, rory stewart, come back for me, writing magazine, travel adventure, touching the void, heart of darkness joseph conrad, descriptive writing, dictionary chinese english, ascent of rum doodle, joe simpson books, dont go