Shadow of the Silk Road

Name: Shadow of the Silk Road
Price: 10.99 EUR
Author: Colin Thubron
ISBN: 9781446499788

Edition en anglais

Colin Thubron

Vintage Digital
Paru le : 29/02/2012

A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin... > Lire la suite

10,99 €

E-book - ePub

Vérifier la compatibilité avec vos supports

E-books dès 9,99 €

E-book À partir de 9,99 €
- ePub
  
  9,99 €

A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron 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. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thubron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose.
Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment. 'It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century' Times'Thubron is the pre-eminent travel writer of his generation' Sunday Telegraph

Fiche technique

Résumé
Fiche technique
Auteur

Date de parution : 29/02/2012
Editeur : Vintage Digital
ISBN : 978-1-4464-9978-8
EAN : 9781446499788
Format : ePub

Caractéristiques du format ePub
- Protection num. : Contenu protégé

À propos de l'auteur

Résumé
Fiche technique
Auteur

Biographie de Colin Thubron

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.