Biographie de Colin Thubron
After earlier books on the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon, Cyprus Colin Thubron explored western Russia by car in the last of the Brezhnev years and wrote Among the Russians. Later he travelled in the remotest regions of China for Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and die Thomas Cook Travel Book Award) and to Central Asia for The Lost Heart of Asia.
He is the author of a number of highly praised novels, including Emperor, A Cruel Madness (winner of the 1985 Silver Pen Award), Falling, Turning Back the Sun and Distance.