The Lost Heart of Asia

Informationen zum Autor Colin Thubron Klappentext 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), In Siberia (Prix Bouvier), Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet (all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature. Zusammenfassung Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Thubron
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9780099459286
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945928-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Asia / Central, Central Asia, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union