Shadow of the Silk Road

Shadow of the Silk Road
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9781446499788
ISBN-13 : 1446499782
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Book Synopsis Shadow of the Silk Road by : Colin Thubron

Download or read book Shadow of the Silk Road written by Colin Thubron and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thubron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment. 'It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century' Times 'Thubron is the pre-eminent travel writer of his generation' Sunday Telegraph


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