Shadow of the Silk Road - Hardcover

Thubron, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701173637 ISBN 13: 9780701173630

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2006

Synopsis

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About this title

Review:

"What a journey, what a book" -- Sunday Express

"[Thubron] brilliantly evokes the history and culture"
-- The Good Book Guide, April 2007

"an important contemporary account of...some of the most
significant...transactions in human history" -- TLS

"the reliable storyteller we needed in place of Marco Polo. His
stock in trade makes him invaluable to us" -- Independent on Sunday

'shimmering prose... so multilayered that, when I reached the end,
I wanted to read it all over again.’ -- Christina Lamb, Sunday Times

Singularly fine prose -- Good Book Guide

From the Publisher:

Colin Thubron has been described as 'one of the two or three best living travel writers, in some ways probably the best' Independent. His new book is a masterpiece. Written in lovely prose, it displays all the skills for which he is renowned - scholarship lightly worn, sensitivity as well as sensibility, and a magical mix of fascinating experiences in the present and extraordinary evocations of the past.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0701173637
• ISBN 13: 9780701173630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384