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.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Thubron
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781784875343
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-534-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics; Vintage Voyages; Vintage Voyages
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; China, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Central Asia, Asian History