Shadow of the Silk Road - Vintage Voyages

Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. 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 and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. A magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment, Thubron covers over 7000 miles in eight months enduring a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell, and undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic, along the way.VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

ISBN:	9781784875343
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	06 Jun 2019
DEWEY:	915.80443
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	363
Weight:	306g
Height:	192mm
Width:	124mm
Spine width:	25mm

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