The Lost Heart of Asia (P.S.) - Couverture souple

Thubron, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061577677 ISBN 13 : 9780061577673

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition--never more so than since the collapse of the Soviet Union--it encompasses terrain as diverse as the Kazakh steppes, the Karakum desert, and the Pamir mountains. In The Lost Heart of Asia, acclaimed, bestselling travel writer Colin Thubron carries readers on an extraordinary journey through this little understood, rarely visited, yet increasingly important corner of the world.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Thubron has a novelist s sensitivity and an historian s perception. One could not ask for a more rewarding travel companion through a little-known land. (Washington Post Book World)

Unconquerably curious and superbly literate...[Thubron] tells us tales of his experiences as a stranger in yet another strange land in lush prose that often soars into poetry. (Los Angeles Times)

Reading Thubron is the next best thing to being there.... His description is as rich with color and detail as the ochre, carnelian and peacock carpets in the mosques. He makes history burn with life. (Newsday)

Biographie de l'auteur

Colin Thubron is the author of seven award-winning novels, including To the Last City, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and his most recent titles include Behind the Wall, winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award; In Siberia, winner of the Prix Bouvier; the New York Times bestseller Shadow of the Silk Road; and To a Mountain in Tibet. In 2010 he became president of the Royal Society of Literature.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061577677
• ISBN 13: 9780061577673
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400