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Colin Thurbon’s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On 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 enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell, and undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic, along the way. VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
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Shadow of the Silk Road, Colin Thubron
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- Shadow of the Silk Road
- Subtitle
- Vintage Voyages
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Colin Thubron
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1784875341
- ISBN13
- 9781784875343
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Travel, Adventure, Political Science & Politics, Politics, Travelogues, British Literature, Asia, China, 21st Century, Museums, Communism, Poverty, Prison, Roman Empire, Turkey, Iran, Deserts
- Original title
- Shadow of the Silk Road
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- Colin Thurbon’s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On 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 enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell, and undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic, along the way. VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind