Shadow of the Silk Road Shadow of the Silk Road

Shadow of the Silk Road

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Publisher Description

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

GENRE
Travel & Adventure
RELEASED
2012
29 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House
SIZE
2.1
MB
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