Shadow of the Silk Road

Zusatztext "Splendid?Sumptuously detailed! elegantly written and riveting...Thubron misses nothing." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: Colin Thubron
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780061231773
• ISBN: 978-0-06-123177-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Islam, China, Iran, Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, Turkey, History of Religion, Ancient World, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Travel and holiday, RELIGION: History, HISTORY: Middle East / General, RELIGION: Islam / General, ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN: AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN: NONFICTION, HISTORY: Asia / Central Asia, TRAVEL: Asia / Central, HISTORY: Asia / General, TRAVEL: Middle East / General, HISTORY: Middle East / Iran, TRAVEL: Asia / East / China, Asian & Asian American / Afghanistan & Pakistan: Nonfiction