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Informationen zum Autor Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians . From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia , In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road. His most recent book is To a Mountain in Tibet (all available in Vintage). Colin Thubron was President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017. Klappentext This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. Zusammenfassung This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth.
