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In Siberia by Colin Thubron
Category: Travel
This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth. He journeyed by train, river and truck among the people most damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union, travelling among Buddhists and animists, radical Christian s ...Show more
Mirror to Damascus by Colin Thubron
Category: Travel
Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', "Mirror to Damascus" provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well a being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is r ...Show more
Night of Fire by Colin Thubron
Category: Fiction
It began with a spark...A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and a photographer. Their landlord's relationship to them is both intimate and shadowy. At times he shares their obsessions and memories. He will also share their fate.The passions of these ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
Category: Travel
A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan an ...Show more
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindOn buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the pla ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
Category: Travel
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
Category: Travel
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer Colin Thubron, at 79, will ...Show more
The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
Category: Travel
Thubron travelled throughout Central Asia in the wake of the break-up of the Soviet Union and documented the widespread social upheaval in a region reeling from political change. An inspirational writer, intrepid traveller and insightful observer, Thubron's The Lost Heart of Asia is an outstanding guide ...Show more
The Travels of Marco Polo by Peter Harris (Editor); Colin Thubron (Introduction by); Marco Polo; William Marsden (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Now in a handsome and newly revised hardcover edition: the extraordinary travelogue that has enthralled readers for more than seven centuries. Marco Polo's vivid descriptions of the splendid cities and people he encountered on his journey along the Silk Road through the Middle East, South Asia, and Chin ...Show more
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo; Everyman's Library Staff; Colin Thubron (Introduction by)
Category: History
The Travels of Marco Polo is a descriptive book by a famous merchant and traveler from Venice, Marco Polo.This book saw the light in the beginning of the fourteenth century. An observant and practical Venetian shared with contemporaries his own observations of morals, state institutions and everyday lif ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
Category: Accessories
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
Category: Travel
"In his new book, Colin Thubron travels to Tibet, and takes the pilgrimage route to Kailas, the most sacred of the world s mountains, holy to one fifth of the earth s people, but rarely visited by westerners. Buddhists and Hindus have ritually circled the mountain for centuries, but its steepest slopes ...Show more