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Shadow of the Silk Road

Shadow of the Silk Road

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SKU 9780099437222 Categories Products, Travel Blog & Writing

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Traces the drifts of the 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. This book recounts the adventures of the author when travelling through the Silk Route.

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Product ID:	9780099437222
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Shadow of the Silk Road
Authors:	Author: Colin Thubron
Page Count:	384
Subjects:	Travel writing, Travel writing, Asia
Description:	Select Guide Rating Traces the drifts of the 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. This book recounts the adventures of the author when travelling through the Silk Route. 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
Imprint Name:	Vintage
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2007-10-04

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Weight	274 g
Dimensions	196 × 136 × 24 mm

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