Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.) - Softcover

Thubron, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061231770 ISBN 13: 9780061231773

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some seven thousand miles in eight months--out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey--and explored an ancient world in modern ferment.

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Review:

"A beautiful and profound travel book"
--"Mail on Sunday"
"A masterpiece of travel writing ... a classic"
--"New Statesman"

"From the Hardcover edition."

" A beautiful and profound travel book"
-- "Mail on Sunday"
" A masterpiece of travel writing ... a classic"
-- "New Statesman"

"From the Hardcover edition."

"An exhausting journey and a marvelous book." -- Harper's Magazine

"Splendid.Sumptuously detailed, elegantly written and riveting...Thubron misses nothing." -- Providence Journal

"[An] absorbing travel epic.Thubron's poetic eye still teases out gorgeous subtleties in the panorama."" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Thubron has done it all, with sparkling grace . . . He is a brilliant brooder, artful in his melancholy."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Splendid...Sumptuously detailed, elegantly written and riveting...Thubron misses nothing."--Providence Journal

"A fantastically descriptive writer, Thubron digs through the history of Central Asia...Perfect for vicarious travelers."--New York magazine

"An exhausting journey and a marvelous book."--Harper's Magazine

"Moving in a way that's rare in travel literature...Thubron goes to places most other sojourners can't."--Lorraine Adams, New York Times Book Review

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: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061231770
• ISBN 13: 9780061231773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400