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A travel book recounting the author's experiences as he journeyed across a pre-Glasnost Soviet Union, describing the various places he visited and the different races of people he encounter
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Book Description:
'A magnificent achievement' - Nikolai Tolstoy, The Times
About the Author:
Colin 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), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road. His most recent book is To a Mountain in Tibet (all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- ISBN 10 0140291431
- ISBN 13 9780140291438
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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