Description
Book SynopsisColin 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),
In Siberia (Prix Bouvier),
Shadow of the Silk Road and
To a Mountain in Tibet (all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.
Trade ReviewThubron's journey takes him through a spectacular, talismanic geography of desert and mountain... a whole glittering, terrible and romantic history lies abandoned along with thoughts of more prosperous times... Thubon's grasp of this fantastical past is impeccable, and he weaves its mysteries with modern images into a dazzling embroidery * The Times *
Thubron writes with an originality and vividness that few contemporary authors can match * Independent *
Although the heroic age of travellers in Central Asia has gone for ever, this book will still deserve, for the intense beauty of its pose and the observant clarity of its visions, to stand alongside the best of those classic travel writings of the past * Sunday Telegraph *
This book is a masterpiece of travel writing... in plain English, it's a classic * New Statesman *
