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.

Info autore

COLIN THUBRON is a celebrated travel writer, winner of many prizes and awards. His classic travel books include: Among the Russians (1983), Behind the Wall (1987), In Siberia (1999), Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) and The Amur River (2021). He is also the author of eight acclaimed works of fiction, including A Cruel Madness (1984), winner of the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, To the Last City, long-listed for the Booker Prize (2002), and Night of Fire (2017). Passage is his ninth novel, shaped by a journey to Egypt.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Colin Thubron
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.06.2019
• Categoria: Viaggi > Reportage di viaggio, racconti di viaggio > Mondo, Artide, Antartide
• EAN: 9781784875343
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-534-3
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.4 cm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics; Vintage Voyages; Vintage Voyages
• Categorie: 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