Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/06/2019
ISBN: 9781784875343
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 305g
RRP: £8.99
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
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/06/2019
ISBN: 9781784875343
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 305g
RRP: £8.99
It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century
A beautiful and profound travel book
A masterpiece of travel writing ... a classic
Thubron is a very hardy traveller, and a very fine writer...[it is] a book of exceptional erudition, adventure and elegance
A poetic volume - interesting, shocking and deeply engaging, the work of a mature writer at the top of his game