Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.)

Thubron, Colin

ISBN 10: 0061231770 / ISBN 13: 9780061231773

Edité par Harper Perennial, 2008

A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price! N° de réf. du vendeur BOS-M-08f-01729

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.

À propos de l'auteur:

Colin Thubron is an acclaimed travel writer and novelist. His first books were about the Middle East – Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled by car into the Soviet Union, a journey he described in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier), Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet.

Among other honors, Colin Thubron has received the Ness award of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. In 2007 he was made CBE. He was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017, and named an RSL Companion of Literature in 2020.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.)
Éditeur : Harper Perennial
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good