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Shadow of the Silk Road

By Colin Thubron

Shadow of the Silk Road Fiction

Shadow of the Silk Road

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2007-10-04
Publication Date:
2007-10-04
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0099437228
ISBN13:
9780099437222
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
275 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
34 cm

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